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PLUMICORN
Definition of PLUMICORN
noun
An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin pluma (“feather”) + cornu (“horn”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,371)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PLUMICORN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PLUMICORN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 170, 6 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 174, 10 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 170, 6 November 2026.
Built from these letters
PLUMICORN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CILMNOPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found PLUMICORN?
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 170 - and most players walked straight past it.
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