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POLO
Definition of POLO
noun
A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
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Where it comes from
From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, POLO · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POLO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
POLO starts with P and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read LOOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start POLO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found POLO?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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