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POTLINE
Definition of POTLINE
noun
An interconnected row of electrolytic reduction pots used in the smelting of aluminium.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pot + line.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, POTLINE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POTLINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POTLINE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EILNOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found POTLINE?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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