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PURPORT
Definition of PURPORT
verb
To convey, imply, or profess (often falsely or inaccurately). [ with to (+ infinitive)]
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English purporten, from Anglo-Norman purporter and Old French porporter (“convey, contain, carry”), from pur-, from Latin pro (“forth”) + Old French porter (“carry”), from Latin portō (“carry”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,371)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PURPORT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PURPORT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read OPPRRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P and R appear more than once.
Words that start PURPOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PURPORT?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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