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POLTERGEIST
Definition of POLTERGEIST
noun
An unseen ghost which makes noises and causes disruption, especially by causing physical objects to move or fly about.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from German Poltergeist, from poltern (“to rumble”) + Geist (“ghost”), cognates with English boulder and ghost, respectively.
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.
POLTERGEIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POLTERGEIST starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EEGILOPRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and E appear more than once.
Words that start POLTERG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POLTERGEIST?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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