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PREVARICATIONS

14 letters

Definition of PREVARICATIONS

noun

plural of prevarication.

PREVARICATION

noun

Evasion of the truth.

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Word DNA

PREVARICATIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, PREVARICATION.

Line of descent

  1. Anglo-Norman
  2. Middle English
  3. Latin
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Anglo-Norman

Deepest traced root

27th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

0.4%

of traced words share this origin (101)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, PREVARICATION · 1 relative in the game

Every Anglo-Norman 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.

PREVARICATIONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 143
Its one board, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

bibliotecaria

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PREVARICATIONS
14
Letters
6
Vowels
8
Consonants
11
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PREVARICATIONS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACEIINOPRRSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, A and I appear more than once.

Words that start PREVARICAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PREVARICATIONS?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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