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PODSOLIZING
Definition of PODSOLIZING
verb
present participle and gerund of podsolize
PODZOLIZE · via podsolize
verb
To transform into podzol.
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Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PODSOLIZING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
Built from these letters
PODSOLIZING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DGIILNOOPSZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and I appear more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PODSOLI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PODSOLIZING?
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 165 - and most players walked straight past it.
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