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PRICE
Definition of PRICE
noun
The cost required to gain possession of something.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,176)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PRICE · 11 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.
PRICE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PRICE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEIPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PRICE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found PRICE?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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