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PUNA
Definition of PUNA
noun
An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Spanish puna, from Quechua puna.
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.
PUNA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 80, 8 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 83, 11 August 2026.
Built from these letters
PUNA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ANPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PUNA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PUNA?
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 80 - and most players walked straight past it.
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