The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

POTHEENS

8 letters

Definition of POTHEENS

noun

plural of potheen

POTEEN · via potheen

noun

Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, POTHEEN · 1 relative in the game

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.

POTHEENS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 154
Its one board, across 154 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
125
First board
29
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 125, 22 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.

Built from these letters

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

POTHEENS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEHNOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.

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 POTHEE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found POTHEENS?

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 125 - and most players walked straight past it.

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