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POTTING
Definition of POTTING
verb
present participle and gerund of pot
POT
symbol
ISO 639-3 language code for Potawatomi.
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Word DNA
POTTING inherits its ancestry from its root, POT.
Line of descent
5 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, POT · 11 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Irish, Latin, Old Norse, Proto-Indo-European, Scottish Gaelic, Swedish and 1 more.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POTTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 44 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
POTTING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GINOPTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start POTTIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POTTING?
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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