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PLOUGH
Definition of PLOUGH
noun
A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PLOUGH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 145 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PLOUGH starts with P and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read GHLOPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PLOUGH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found PLOUGH?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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