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PRELUDERS

9 letters

Definition of PRELUDERS

noun

plural of preluder

PRELUDER

noun

One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude.

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Word DNA

PRELUDERS inherits its ancestry from its root, PRELUDE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,318)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, PRELUDE · 4 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

PRELUDERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its one board, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
172
First board
3
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

pigbenis

on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PRELUDERS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PRELUDERS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEELPRRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and E appear more than once.

Words that start PRELUD

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PRELUDERS?

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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.

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