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PURLOIN
Definition of PURLOIN
verb
To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
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Other senses
PURLOIN carries 4 further meanings.
transitive verb
To steal, especially in a stealthy way. synonym: steal.
To put off; prolong; delay.
To set back or aside; put away; remove.
To remove, carry off, or take for one's self; hence, to take by theft; filch; steal.
Where it comes from
From Middle English purloynen (“to remove”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman purloigner (“to put far away”), one of the variants of Old French porloignier. Doublet of prolong.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (840)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PURLOIN · 3 relatives in the game
PURLOIN in a sentence
“Les Synonyms: dérober = to purloin chiper = to swipe, filch piquer = to pinch, to nick”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PURLOIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 112 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PURLOIN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ILNOPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PURLOIN. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start PURLOI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found PURLOIN?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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