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PLUM
Definition of PLUM
noun
The fruit and its tree. An edible, fleshy stone fruit of species Prunus domestica (European plum) and Prunus americana American plum, often of a dark red or purple colour. A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica. The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow. Prunus sect. Prunus Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan). Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum). Prunus spinosa (sloe). Prunus ursina (bear's plum). Prunus sect. Prunocerasus (North American plums) Prunus americana (American plum). Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum). Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum). Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum). Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum). Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum). Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots) Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume. A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. Doublet of prune.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PLUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PLUM starts with P and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read LMPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PLUM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found PLUM?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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