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PRESTIGE
Definition of PRESTIGE
noun
The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestīgium (“a delusion, an illusion”). Despite the phonetic similarities and the old meaning of “delusion, illusion, trick”, the word has a different root than prestidigitator (“conjurer”) and prestidigitation.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,981)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PRESTIGE · 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.
PRESTIGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 48 boards so far. 107 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 14, 3 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 14, 3 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PRESTIGE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEGIPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start PRESTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 14
Could you have found PRESTIGE?
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 14 - and most players walked straight past it.
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