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POTTAGE
Definition of POTTAGE
noun
A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat or fish, a staple food throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pottage, from Anglo-Norman and Old French potage, equivalent to pot + -age.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,361)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, POTTAGE · 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.
POTTAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 58 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POTTAGE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGOPTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found POTTAGE?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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