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PRAT
Definition of PRAT
noun
A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English prat, from Old English præt, prætt (“trick, prank, craft, art, wile”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander about”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian prat, Dutch pret (“fun, pleasure, gaity”), obsolete Dutch prat (“cunning, strategem, scheme, a prideful display, arrogance”), Low German prot, Norwegian prette (“trick”), Icelandic prettur (“a trick”). Related to pretty.
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.
PRAT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 49 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PRAT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read APRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PRAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PRAT?
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