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PREVENTING
Definition of PREVENTING
verb
present participle and gerund of prevent
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Word DNA
PREVENTING inherits its ancestry from its root, PREVENT.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations 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, PREVENT · 5 relatives 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.
PREVENTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 154, 21 October 2026.
Built from these letters
PREVENTING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EEGINNPRTV - 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 PREVENTING?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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