The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PRAGMATIC
Definition of PRAGMATIC
adjective
Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French pragmatique, from Late Latin pragmaticus (“relating to civil affair; in Latin, as a noun, a person versed in the law who furnished arguments and points to advocates and orators, a kind of attorney”), from Ancient Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikós, “active, versed in affairs”), from πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”), in plural πράγματα (prágmata, “affairs, state affairs, public business, etc.”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”) (whence English practical).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,706)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PRAGMATIC · 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.
PRAGMATIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 365 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PRAGMATIC starts with P and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read AACGIMPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PRAGMA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found PRAGMATIC?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER