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PREMATURE
Definition of PREMATURE
adjective
Occurring before a state of readiness or maturity has arrived.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin praemātūrus, equivalent to pre- + mature. First use appears c. 1440 in a translation of Palladius's De Re Rustica.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,170)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PREMATURE · 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.
PREMATURE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PREMATURE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEMPRRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and E appear more than once.
Words that start PREMAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PREMATURE?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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