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Definition of POCKET
noun
A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokō (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *puhô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Equivalent to poke + -et. Doublet of pochette. Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke (“sack or bag”). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.
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.
POCKET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 33 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POCKET starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEKOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start POCKET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found POCKET?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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