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PRATING

7 letters

Definition of PRATING

verb

present participle and gerund of prate

PRATE

noun

Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.

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Word DNA

PRATING inherits its ancestry from its root, PRAT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (12,281)

How it is built

verb

Same root, PRAT · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PRATING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 36 boards so far. 63 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 177
Its 36 boards, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
36
Boards found on
41
First board
174
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 174, 10 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

pickles

on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PRATING
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PRATING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGINPRT - 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 PRATIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PRATING?

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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.

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