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POME
Definition of POME
noun
A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pome (“fruit, meatball”), from Old French pome (“apple”), from Latin pōmum. For the verb, compare French pommer. Doublet of pomme.
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.
POME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
POME starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EMOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 POME
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found POME?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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