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PRAY

/pɹeɪ/4 letters

Definition of PRAY

verb

To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.

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Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English preien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman preier, from Old French proiier, from Late Latin precāre, from Latin precārī, from prex (“request, petition, prayer”), from Proto-Italic *preks, from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to request, ask”). Displaced native Old English gebiddan. Cognate via Indo-European of Old English frignan, fricgan, German fragen, Dutch vragen. Compare deprecate, imprecate, precarious.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

PRAY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far.

Day 1Day 122
Its 11 boards, across 122 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
27
First board
121
Latest board
40
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

sarbro

on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PRAY
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start PRAY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PRAYSPRAYEDPRAYERPRAYERSPRAYINGPRAYINGSPRAYERFULPRAYINGLYPRAYERLESSPRAYERFULLYPRAYERFULNESSPRAYERFULNESSES

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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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.

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