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PURGATIVE
Definition of PURGATIVE
adjective
purging
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French purgatif.
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.
PURGATIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PURGATIVE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGIPRTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PURGAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found PURGATIVE?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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