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POUNDED
Definition of POUNDED
verb
simple past and past participle 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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Word DNA
POUNDED inherits its ancestry from its root, POUND.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,431)
How it is built
Same root, POUND · 3 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.
POUNDED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POUNDED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDENOPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once.
Could you have found POUNDED?
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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.
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