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PREHUMAN

8 letters

Definition of PREHUMAN

adjective

Preceding the advent of modern humanity, Homo sapiens.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From pre- + human.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

PREHUMAN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 119
Its 2 boards, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
41
First board
65
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 65, 24 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 54 days.

First ever to find it

jhewitt

on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PREHUMAN
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start PREHUM

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PREHUMAN?

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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.

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