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PORTERS
Definition of PORTERS
noun
plural of porter
PORTER
noun
A person who carries luggage and related objects; one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.
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Word DNA
PORTERS inherits its ancestry from its root, PORTER.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,478)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PORTERS 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 4 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
PORTERS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EOPRRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PORTER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PORTERS?
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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