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PORTENT
Definition of PORTENT
noun
Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin portentum, participle of portendere, from portendō (“to predict, to foretell”).
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.
PORTENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 106, 3 September 2026.
Built from these letters
PORTENT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ENOPRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start PORTEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PORTENT?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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