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PORTATIVES
Definition of PORTATIVES
noun
plural of portative
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Word DNA
PORTATIVES inherits its ancestry from its root, PORTATIVE.
Line of descent
- Middle French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (336)
branch · 15.4% 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.
PORTATIVES 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 10 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
PORTATIVES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEIOPRSTTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start PORTAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PORTATIVES?
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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