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PREEMPTIONS
Definition of PREEMPTIONS
noun
plural of preemption
PREEMPTION
noun
An act or process that preempts; a preventive or forestalling action; as: The purchase of something before it is offered for sale to others. The purchase of public land by the occupant. The temporary interruption of a task without its cooperation and with the intention of resuming it at a later time. The supersession of a conflicting law from a lower jurisdiction by an overlapping law from a higher jurisdiction.
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Word DNA
PREEMPTIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, PREEMPTION.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,951)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PREEMPTION · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PREEMPTIONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PREEMPTIONS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEIMNOPPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PREEMPT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PREEMPTIONS?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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