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PUCANS
Definition of PUCANS
noun
plural of pucan
POOKAUN · via pucan
noun
A kind of small fishing boat from the region of Galway in Ireland.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PUCAN · 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.
PUCANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PUCANS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACNPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 PUCANS?
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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.
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