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PRAETORIAN
Definition of PRAETORIAN
adjective
Of or pertaining to a praetor.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pretorian, from Latin praetōriānus.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,424)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PRAETORIAN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PRAETORIAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PRAETORIAN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAEINOPRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and A appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PRAETO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PRAETORIAN?
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