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PUGILISM
Definition of PUGILISM
noun
Fighting with fists.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin pugil (“fist”) + -ism, related to pugnus (“fist”), from Proto-Indo-European roots. Compare contemporary pugilist (“boxer”), 1790.
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.
PUGILISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 136 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PUGILISM starts with P and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read GIILMPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start PUGILI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found PUGILISM?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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