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PORTENTOUS

/pɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛntəs/10 letters

Definition of PORTENTOUS

adjective

Of momentous or ominous significance.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Of multiple origins:

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PORTENTOUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its one board, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
106
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

tonybones

on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PORTENTOUS
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PORTENTOUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ENOOPRSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and T appear more than once.

Words that start PORTEN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PORTENDPORTENTPORTENDSPORTENTSPORTENDEDPORTENDINGPORTENTOUSLYPORTENTOUSNESS

Could you have found PORTENTOUS?

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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