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PULUS
Definition of PULUS
Wiktionary has no entry for PULUS itself. This is its base word, PULU.
noun
A silky material obtained from the fibres of Cibotium glaucum, a tree fern of Hawaii.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for PULU.
Borrowed from Hawaiian pulu.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Hawaiian
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
46th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (49)
branch · 0.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PULU · 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.
PULUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 85, 13 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 71 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 85, 13 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PULUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read LPSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found PULUS?
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 85 - and most players walked straight past it.
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