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PLUTONOMY
Definition of PLUTONOMY
noun
The study of the production and distribution of wealth, or a society seen as dominated by such concerns.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pluto- + -nomy. Google’s n-gram search suggests the Plutonomy was coined in late 1800s. References to the term using n-gram can be found in books as early as 1851, in a book written by John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow titled “Christian Socialism and Its opponents”, where it was used in the context of wealth. In modern use popularized by Ajay Kapur in a series of papers published during his tenure as Citigroup’s global strategist.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PLUTONOMY · 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.
PLUTONOMY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 72, 31 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
PLUTONOMY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read LMNOOPTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start PLUTON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PLUTONOMY?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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