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SUBPOENA
Definition of SUBPOENA
noun
A writ (“written order”) requiring someone to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony (a subpoena ad testificandum) or to produce evidence (subpoena duces tecum), in default of which the person may be punished.
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Where it comes from
The noun sense is derived from Late Middle English sub pena (“writ requiring defendant to appear in the Court of Chancery to answer a plaintiff’s claim or to be punished; writ requiring witness to appear in court”), from Latin sub (“under”) + poena (“penalty, punishment”), from the opening words of the writ. The verb sense is derived from the noun one.
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.
SUBPOENA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SUBPOENA starts with S and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ABENOPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SUBPOE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found SUBPOENA?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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