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POESY
Definition of POESY
noun
A poem.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
POESY carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Poetical works; poetry.
noun
The art or practice of composing poems.
noun
The art of poetic composition; skill in making poems.
noun
Poetry; metrical composition.
Where it comes from
From Middle English poesie (Middle English po(esie) + -esy), from Middle French poesie, from Late Latin poesia, from earlier poēsis, from Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis). Doublet of poiesis.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,517)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, POESY · 3 relatives in the game
POESY in a sentence
“To me poesy is the crystalization of a time, place, mood, event, etc. made very personal by the words and form chosen.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POESY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 55 boards so far. 306 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
POESY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EOPSY - 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 POESY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found POESY?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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