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PRELIM
Definition of PRELIM
adjective
Preliminary.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Clipping of preliminary. Sense 2 ("clipping of preliminary examination") was originally Oxford University slang, now in common use.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PRELIM · 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.
PRELIM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 46 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
PRELIM starts with P and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read EILMPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PRELIM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found PRELIM?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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