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PULSATORY

9 letters

Definition of PULSATORY

adjective

Consisting of pulses; rhythmic; throbbing.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

PULSATORY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 144
Its 5 boards, across 144 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
71
First board
115
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.

First ever to find it

gobo_88

on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PULSATORY
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PULSATORY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ALOPRSTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start PULSAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PULSATEPULSATEDPULSATESPULSATORPULSATILEPULSATINGPULSATIONPULSATIVEPULSATORSPULSATANCEPULSATILLAPULSATIONS

Could you have found PULSATORY?

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 71 - and most players walked straight past it.

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