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PREVENT
Definition of PREVENT
verb
To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
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Where it comes from
From Middle English preventen (“anticipate”), from Latin praeventus, perfect passive participle of praeveniō (“to anticipate”), from prae (“before”) + veniō (“to come”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PREVENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PREVENT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EENPRTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start PREVEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found PREVENT?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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