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PUDOR
Definition of PUDOR
noun
An appropriate sense of modesty or shame.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin pudor (“sense of modesty or shame”), from pudet (“it shames”), as is pudency (via pudentia).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PUDOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PUDOR starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read DOPRU - 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.
Words that start PUDOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found PUDOR?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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