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PONTAGE

7 letters

Definition of PONTAGE

noun

A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Latin pons, pontis (“a bridge”): compare French pontage.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

PONTAGE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its 2 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
85
First board
86
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 85, 13 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 86, 14 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.

First found by a player on Day 85, 13 August 2026.

Built from these letters

PONTAGE
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PONTAGE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGNOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start PONTAG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PONTAGE?

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 85 - and most players walked straight past it.

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