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PSEUD

/s(j)uːd/5 letters

Definition of PSEUD

noun

An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Possible clipping of pseudointellectual. From Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PSEUD in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 98
Its 11 boards, across 98 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
45
First board
97
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 45, 4 July 2026.

Also on

Built from these letters

PSEUD
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PSEUD starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

DUPESSPUED

Words that start PSEUD

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PSEUDOPSEUDSPSEUDOSPSEUDERYPSEUDISHPSEUDAXESPSEUDAXISPSEUDONYMPSEUDOPODPSEUDERIESPSEUDIMAGOPSEUDOACID

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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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.

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