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PRIME

/pɹaɪ̯m/5 letters

Definition of PRIME

adjective

First in importance, degree, or rank.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English prime, from Old French prime and its etymon, Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo and primus. The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PRIME in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 20 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards found on
11
First board
103
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

cpee

on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PRIME
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PRIME starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIMPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start PRIME

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PRIMEDPRIMERPRIMESPRIMELYPRIMEROPRIMERSPRIMEURPRIMEROSPRIMEURSPRIMEVALPRIMENESSPRIMETIME

Could you have found PRIME?

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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.

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