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POWANS
Definition of POWANS
noun
plural of powan
noun
Coregonus clupeoides, a species of freshwater whitefish endemic to Loch Lomond in Scotland.
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Word DNA
POWANS inherits its ancestry from its root, POWAN.
Line of descent
- Scottish Gaelic
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
39th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (123)
branch · 0.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, POWAN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POWANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POWANS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ANOPSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found POWANS?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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