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POTAGE
Definition of POTAGE
noun
A thick soup, especially a creamy one.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
POTAGE carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A thick, often creamy soup.
noun
An obsolete form of pottage.
noun
Soup.
noun
See pottage.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French potage, and from earlier borrowing pottage.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,081)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, POTAGE · 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.
POTAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 95 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POTAGE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of POTAGE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start POTAGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found POTAGE?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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