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PLYWOOD
Definition of PLYWOOD
noun
Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.
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Where it comes from
From ply (“sheet”) + wood.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PLYWOOD · 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.
PLYWOOD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 49 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PLYWOOD starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DLOOPWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found PLYWOOD?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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