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PREHISTORY
Definition of PREHISTORY
noun
The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pre- (“before”) + history, first attested in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836, after the model of prehistoric, from French préhistorique.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,418)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PREHISTORY 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 16 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
PREHISTORY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EHIOPRRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start PREHIS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PREHISTORY?
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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