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PRIESTLING
Definition of PRIESTLING
noun
A petty, insignificant priest.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From priest + -ling.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PRIESTLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 77, 5 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 77, 5 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PRIESTLING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGIILNPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start PRIEST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PRIESTLING?
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 77 - and most players walked straight past it.
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