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PUNISHMENTS
Definition of PUNISHMENTS
noun
plural of punishment
noun
The act (action) or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent or teacher), especially when disappointed or dissatisfied with the behavior or actions of a child, student, or someone else being looked after.
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Word DNA
PUNISHMENTS inherits its ancestry from its root, PUNISHMENT.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,510)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PUNISHMENT · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PUNISHMENTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PUNISHMENTS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EHIMNNPSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and S appear more than once.
Could you have found PUNISHMENTS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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