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PULSE
Definition of PULSE
noun
A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them; the qualitative nature of this beat.
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Where it comes from
From Late Middle English pulse, Middle English pous, pouse (“regular beat of arteries, pulse; heartbeat; place on the body where a pulse is detectable; beat (of a musical instrument); energy, vitality”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman puls, pous, pus, and Middle French pouls, poulz, pous [and other forms], Old French pous, pulz (“regular beat of arteries; place on the body where a pulse is detectable”) (modern French pouls), and from their etymon Latin pulsus (“beat, impulse, pulse, stroke; regular beat of arteries or the heart”), from pellō (“to drive, impel, propel, push; to banish, eject, expel; to set in motion; to strike”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to beat, strike; to drive; to push, thrust”)) + -sus (a variant of -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs)).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PULSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PULSE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ELPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PULSE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found PULSE?
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