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POUND
Definition of POUND
noun
A unit of weight in various measurement systems. Ellipsis of pound weight. Various non-English units of measure.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”). Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish pund. Doublet of funt, pfund, pood, and punt.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,595)
How it is built
Same root, POUND · 13 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POUND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 69 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
POUND starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DNOPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start POUND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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