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POWNDING

8 letters

Definition of POWNDING

Wiktionary has no entry for POWNDING itself. This is its base word, POWND.

noun

Obsolete form of pound.

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

POWNDING inherits its ancestry from its root, POUND.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Proto-Germanic
  4. Old English
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (12,180)

How it is built

noun

Same root, POUND · 13 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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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.

POWNDING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its one board, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
154
First board
20
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.

First found by a player on Day 154, 21 October 2026.

Built from these letters

POWNDING
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found POWNDING?

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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.

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