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PERSON
Definition of PERSON
noun
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone (“human being”), French personne), and its source Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). In this sense, displaced native man, which came to mean primarily "adult male" in Middle English; see Old English mann. Displaced native Old English hād (“person, individual”). Doublet of parson and persona.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,238)
branch · 22.3% 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.
PERSON in OUTLIER
It has fitted 2 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PERSON starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ENOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PERSON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PERSON?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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