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PUBERULENT
Definition of PUBERULENT
adjective
Covered in soft, downy hairs.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the Latin puberulentus, see puber (“downy, adult”), -ulentus (“abounding in”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
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.
PUBERULENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 70, 29 July 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
PUBERULENT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BEELNPRTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and E appear more than once.
Words that start PUBERU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PUBERULENT?
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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.
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