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PORT
Definition of PORT
noun
A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf. Doublet of fjard, fjord, firth, ford, and Portus.
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.
PORT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PORT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read OPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PORT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found PORT?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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