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PUMA
Definition of PUMA
noun
A mountain lion or cougar (Puma concolor).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish puma, borrowed from Quechua puma, from Proto-Quechuan *puma.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PUMA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 64, 23 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 45 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PUMA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AMPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found PUMA?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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