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POTENT
Definition of POTENT
adjective
Powerful; possessing power; effective. Possessing authority or influence; persuasive, convincing.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English potent, borrowed from Latin potens, potentis (“powerful, strong, potent”), present participle of posse (“to be able”), from potis (“able, powerful, originally a lord, master”).
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.
POTENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POTENT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ENOPTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start POTENT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POTENT?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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