PRAWN

Where it comes from

First attested early 1400s as various Middle English forms prayne, prane, praune, and prawne, which present no clear cognates in languages other than English. The forms suggest a hypothetical Old English form *prægn, where *æg would have evolved into Middle English *ay, but it is unclear if the word is of Germanic origin, from another European language, or loaned from a substrate. In the Isle of Wight, a word prankle ("prawn") is recorded and thought to be related. Century, following Skeat, suggested transposition of an unrecorded Old French *parne, *perne related to Spanish perna (“a flat shellfish”), Old Italian perna and diminutive pernochie, parnocchie, glossed as "shrimps or prawne, fishes" by John Florio, but the OED considers Florio's entry incorrect and the suggested connection semantically and phonologically implausible. Noun sense 3 ("woman with attractive body and unattractive face") is from the idea of discarding the head of a prawn before eating it.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

PRAWN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 84 players have found it across Outlier's history.

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

PRAWN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ANPRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start PRAWN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Also seen on Day 8