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PRELOCATING
Definition of PRELOCATING
verb
present participle and gerund of prelocate
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PRELOCATING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 48 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 54, 13 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PRELOCATING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACEGILNOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 PRELOCA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 54
Could you have found PRELOCATING?
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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.
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