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POOLS
Definition of POOLS
noun
plural of pool
noun
A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
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Word DNA
POOLS inherits its ancestry from its root, POOL.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,625)
How it is built
Same root, POOL · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Russian, Scots, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POOLS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 128, 25 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
POOLS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read LOOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found POOLS?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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