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PSEUDOMETRIC
Definition of PSEUDOMETRIC
adjective
Describing a generalization of a metric space in which the distance between two distinct points can be zero.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pseudo- + metric.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PSEUDOMETRIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 147, 14 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PSEUDOMETRIC starts with P and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CDEEIMOPRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found PSEUDOMETRIC?
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 147 - and most players walked straight past it.
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