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PONDAGE
Definition of PONDAGE
noun
The small water storage behind the weir of a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plant.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pond + -age.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, POND · 12 relatives 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.
PONDAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 147, 14 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 147, 14 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PONDAGE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEGNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found PONDAGE?
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 147 - and most players walked straight past it.
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