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PORTATIVE
Definition of PORTATIVE
adjective
Portable.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French portatif, corresponding to port + -ative.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (342)
branch · 15.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PORTATIVE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PORTATIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PORTATIVE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEIOPRTTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
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 PORTAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PORTATIVE?
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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