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PREFILING
Definition of PREFILING
adjective
Before filing
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pre- + filing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PREFILE · 3 relatives 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.
PREFILING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PREFILING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EFGIILNPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PREFIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PREFILING?
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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.
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