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PUNGY
Definition of PUNGY
noun
a type of schooner developed in and peculiar to the Chesapeake Bay region.
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Where it comes from
Unknown
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PUNGY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 142, 9 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 174, 10 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 142, 9 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PUNGY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read GNPUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found PUNGY?
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 142 - and most players walked straight past it.
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