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POTALE
Definition of POTALE
noun
A liquid byproduct from a grain distillery, consisting of the liquid portion of draff after the spent grain is removed, plus washings from tuns (spent wash). Over time its disposition has varied: mostly as dumped waste, sometimes sold for part of the ration for pigs and cattle, when such a market is available.
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Where it comes from
From pot + ale.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POTALE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 123, 20 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 123, 20 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POTALE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AELOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found POTALE?
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 123 - and most players walked straight past it.
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