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PREVENIENT
Definition of PREVENIENT
adjective
Relating to prevenience; antecedent; preceding; coming or happening before.
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Where it comes from
From Latin praeveniēns
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
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,664)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PREVENIENT · 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.
PREVENIENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 169, 5 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 169, 5 November 2026.
Built from these letters
PREVENIENT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EEEINNPRTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and N appear more than once.
Words that start PREVEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PREVENIENT?
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 169 - and most players walked straight past it.
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