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PONDEROUS
Definition of PONDEROUS
adjective
Heavy, massive, weighty.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Ultimately from Latin ponderōsus (“weighty”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PONDEROUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 244 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PONDEROUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DENOOPRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start PONDER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found PONDEROUS?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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