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PORTMAN
Definition of PORTMAN
noun
A burgess of a port, especially of one of the Cinque Ports.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English portman, from Old English portman, portmann (“townsman, burgher, citizen”), equivalent to port + man.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,961)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PORTMAN · 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.
PORTMAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PORTMAN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AMNOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PORTMA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found PORTMAN?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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