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PRESENTLY

/ˈpɹɛzəntli/9 letters

Definition of PRESENTLY

adverb

Immediately, at once; quickly.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English presently; equivalent to present + -ly.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (4,995)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adverb3 syllablescompound-ly

Every Middle English 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.

PRESENTLY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 161
Its 16 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
16
First board
160
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.

Built from these letters

PRESENTLY
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PRESENTLY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EELNPRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start PRESEN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PRESENTPRESENCEPRESENTSPRESENCESPRESENILEPRESENTEDPRESENTEEPRESENTERPRESENSIONPRESENTEESPRESENTERSPRESENTIAL

Could you have found PRESENTLY?

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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.

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