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PUDDLE
Definition of PUDDLE
noun
A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *puddaz (compare Low German Pudel (“puddle”), Middle High German podel (“quagmire, mudhole”), Hunsrik Puttel, dialectal German Pfudel (“puddle”), German pudeln (“to splash about”)), ultimately imitative.
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.
PUDDLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 47 days.
First found by a player on Day 76, 4 August 2026.
Built from these letters
PUDDLE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DDELPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PUDDLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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