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PONDERS
Definition of PONDERS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of ponder
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Word DNA
PONDERS inherits its ancestry from its root, PONDER.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,914)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PONDER · 1 relative 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.
PONDERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 77 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PONDERS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DENOPRS - 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 PONDER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found PONDERS?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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