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PLIGHT
Definition of PLIGHT
noun
A dire or unfortunate situation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English plit (“fold, wrinkle, bad situation”), conflation of Middle English pliht, plight (“risky promise, peril”) (from Old English pliht "danger, risk"; see Etymology 2) and Anglo-Norman plit, plyte (“fold, condition”), from Old French pleit (“condition, manner of folding”) (from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum (“fold”)).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PLIGHT · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PLIGHT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 67 boards so far. 206 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 1, 22 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PLIGHT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read GHILPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PLIGHT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found PLIGHT?
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