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POSTURE
Definition of POSTURE
noun
The way a person holds and positions their body.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French posture, from Italian postura, from Latin positūra (“position, situation”). Doublet of positura.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Italian
- Middle French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,817)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, POSTURE · 8 relatives 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.
POSTURE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
POSTURE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EOPRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
6 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start POSTUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found POSTURE?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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