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POTASHED
Definition of POTASHED
verb
simple past and past participle of potash
noun
The water-soluble part of wood ash, used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer (chemically speaking, an impure form of potassium carbonate (K2CO3) mixed with other potassium salts).
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Word DNA
POTASHED inherits its ancestry from its root, POTASH.
How it is built
Same root, POTASH · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POTASHED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
POTASHED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEHOPST - 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.
Words that start POTASH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found POTASHED?
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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