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PORTANCES
Definition of PORTANCES
Wiktionary has no entry for PORTANCES itself. This is its base word, PORTANCE.
noun
The manner in which one carries oneself; behaviour.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for PORTANCE.
From Middle French portance (“a carrying, support”), from porter (“to carry”), from Latin portare (“carry, bear, convey”).
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.
PORTANCES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 104, 1 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PORTANCES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACENOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found PORTANCES?
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 104 - and most players walked straight past it.
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