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POMANDERS
Definition of POMANDERS
noun
plural of pomander
noun
A mixture of aromatic substances, made into a ball and carried by a person to impart a sweet smell or as a protection against infection.
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Word DNA
POMANDERS inherits its ancestry from its root, POMANDER.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,843)
How it is built
Same root, POMANDER · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POMANDERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POMANDERS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEMNOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found POMANDERS?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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