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PNEUMOTHORAX
Definition of PNEUMOTHORAX
noun
Presence of air inside the pleural cavity, usually caused by injury either to the lung or the chest wall.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pneumo- + thorax.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PNEUMOTHORAX · 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.
PNEUMOTHORAX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 157 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PNEUMOTHORAX starts with P and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read AEHMNOOPRTUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start PNEUMOTH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found PNEUMOTHORAX?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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