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POTE
Definition of POTE
verb
To push, thrust.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English poten, from Old English potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), from Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stab, push, poke”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to plant”), Norwegian Nynorsk pota (“to poke”). More at put.
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.
POTE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.
Built from these letters
POTE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start POTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found POTE?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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