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POTENCES

8 letters

Definition of POTENCES

noun

plural of potence

POTENCE

noun

Power or strength; potency.

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Word DNA

POTENCES inherits its ancestry from its root, POTENCE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (24,861)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, POTENCE · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

POTENCES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 163
Its 4 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
100
First board
160
Latest board
51
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 100, 28 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

amabel

on Day 100, 28 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

POTENCES
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

POTENCES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEENOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start POTENC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found POTENCES?

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 100 - and most players walked straight past it.

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