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PULAOS
Definition of PULAOS
noun
plural of pulao
PILAF · via pulao
noun
A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.
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Word DNA
PULAOS inherits its ancestry from its root, PULAO.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (240)
branch · 1.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PULAO · 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.
PULAOS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PULAOS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ALOPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found PULAOS?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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