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POTHEENS
Definition of POTHEENS
noun
plural of potheen
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Word DNA
POTHEENS inherits its ancestry from its root, POTEEN.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,191)
How it is built
Same root, POTEEN · 3 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
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.
It first turned up on Day 125, 22 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.
Built from these letters
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.
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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