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POMME

/pɑm/5 letters

Definition of POMME

noun

A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling or representing an apple.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French pomme (“apple”), ultimately from Latin poma. Doublet of pome.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,450)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

POMME in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its one board, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
161
First board
16
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

andrewski

on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

POMME
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

POMME starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EMMOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start POMME

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

POMMEEPOMMELPOMMESPOMMELEPOMMELSPOMMELEDPOMMETTYPOMMELINGPOMMELLEDPOMMELLING

Could you have found POMME?

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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.

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