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PRESA
Definition of PRESA
noun
A symbol, such as ※ or :S:, used to indicate where a voice is to begin singing in a canon or round.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian presa (“capture, seizure”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Italian
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.7%
of traced words share this origin (1,299)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PRESA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 62, 21 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 95 days.
First found by a player on Day 62, 21 July 2026.
Built from these letters
PRESA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AEPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
12 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PRESA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PRESA?
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 62 - and most players walked straight past it.
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