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POTLINES

8 letters

Definition of POTLINES

noun

plural of potline

POTLINE

noun

An interconnected row of electrolytic reduction pots used in the smelting of aluminium.

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Word DNA

POTLINES inherits its ancestry from its root, POTLINE.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, POTLINE · 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.

POTLINES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its 2 boards, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
152
First board
155
Latest board
3
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

capt_howdy

on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

POTLINES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EILNOPST - 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.

Words that start POTLIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found POTLINES?

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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.

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