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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.
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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).
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 21 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 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.
Also seen on Day 7
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