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POTSHERD
Definition of POTSHERD
noun
A piece of ceramic from pottery, often found on an archaeological site.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pot-sherd, pot-schord, pot scherd, pot scarth, from Middle English pot, pote, potte (“a container, pot, vessel; especially an earthenware vessel”) (from late Old English pot, pott (“a pot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel”)) + Middle English sherd (“piece of fired clay or broken earthenware; potsherd”) (from Old English sceard (“a shard, sherd”), from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“a nick, notch”)); equivalent to pot + sherd (“shard”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,856)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, POTSHERD · 2 relatives 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.
POTSHERD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 49 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POTSHERD starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEHOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start POTSHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found POTSHERD?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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