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PRATE
Definition of PRATE
noun
Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
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Other senses
PRATE carries 4 further meanings.
intransitive verb
To talk idly and at length; chatter.
To talk idly or boastfully; be loquacious; chatter; babble.
To utter foolishly; chatter.
noun
Idle or childish talk; prattle; unmeaning loquacity; twaddle.
Where it comes from
From Middle English praten; either inherited from Old English prætt or borrowed via Middle Dutch or Middle Low German praten (from Old Saxon *pratt), all from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bred- (“to wander, rove”). Related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, dated German pfrassen, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata;; also cognate with Polish bredzić (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian bradāt (“to talk nonsense”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,589)
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic, Polish, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
PRATE in a sentence
“The same pople who used to prate about "moral clarity" now argue that we should overlook criminality.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PRATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 113 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 9, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PRATE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PRATE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PRATE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found PRATE?
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