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PUMICED
Definition of PUMICED
verb
simple past and past participle of pumice
noun
A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.
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Word DNA
PUMICED inherits its ancestry from its root, PUMICE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- Anglo-Norman
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PUMICE · 3 relatives 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.
PUMICED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 87 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PUMICED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEIMPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PUMICE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found PUMICED?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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