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POUNDINGS

/ˈpaʊndɪŋz/9 letters

Definition of POUNDINGS

noun

plural of pounding

POUND · via pounding

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

How it is built

noun2 syllables

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

POUNDINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its one board, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
159
First board
6
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

saytheword

on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

POUNDINGS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

POUNDINGS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DGINNOPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.

Words that start POUNDI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

POUNDING

Could you have found POUNDINGS?

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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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