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PORRIDGE

/ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/8 letters

Definition of PORRIDGE

noun

A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun2 syllables

Same root, PORRIDGE · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

PORRIDGE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 161
Its 4 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
138
First board
154
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

bananatree

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PORRIDGE
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PORRIDGE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEGIOPRR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start PORRID

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PORRIDGE?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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