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PULA

/pʊlə/4 letters

Definition of PULA

noun

Rain, used as an expression of greeting or good luck.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Tswana pula, Northern Sotho pula, and Sotho pula (“rain”), all from Proto-Bantu *mbúdà (“rain”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-buda (“rain, rain cloud”)

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PULA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 3 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
48
First board
120
Latest board
59
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

kapt_brandewyn

on Day 48, 7 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PULA
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PULA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ALPU - 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 PULA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PULA?

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 48 - and most players walked straight past it.

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