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FISHPOND
Definition of FISHPOND
noun
A freshwater pond stocked with fish; especially one formerly attached to a monastery etc as a source of food.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English fishpond; equivalent to fish + pond.
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.
FISHPOND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FISHPOND starts with F and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DFHINOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FISHPO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FISHPOND?
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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.
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