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PONTIANAC
Definition of PONTIANAC
noun
A fossil resin historically used in the production of some rubber, produced from the latex of Dyera costulata.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Pontianac, an older spelling of Pontianak, a port city in West Kalimantan, from which the resin was shipped, named for the ghostly pontianaks which supposedly once inhabited the site.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PONTIANAC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PONTIANAC starts with P and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read AACINNOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and A appear more than once.
Words that start PONTIA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PONTIANAC?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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