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POTPOURRI
Definition of POTPOURRI
noun
A mixture of dried fragrant plant material, often in a decorative bowl, used to scent a room.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French pot-pourri (“stew, potpourri”), a calque of Spanish olla podrida (“stew”, literally “rotten pot”). Doublet of olla podrida.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.5%
of traced words share this origin (459)
branch · 15.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, POTPOURRI · 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.
POTPOURRI in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POTPOURRI starts with P and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read IOOPPRRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P, O and R appear more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found POTPOURRI?
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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