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PLUSH

/plʌʃ/5 letters

Definition of PLUSH

adjective

Very extravagant. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From French peluche (“fluff, plush”). The fact that historically (in past centuries) plush upholstery was so expensive as to be socially exclusive undoubtedly connects the senses of "luxurious" and "soft".

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PLUSH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 97
Its 13 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
25
First board
94
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.

Built from these letters

PLUSH
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PLUSH starts with P and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read HLPSU - 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 PLUSH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PLUSHYPLUSHERPLUSHESPLUSHLYPLUSHESTPLUSHIERPLUSHILYPLUSHIESTPLUSHNESSPLUSHINESSPLUSHNESSESPLUSHINESSES

Could you have found PLUSH?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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