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PRISONER
Definition of PRISONER
noun
A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English prisoner, from Old French prisonier (compare Medieval Latin prisōnārius), equivalent to prison + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,410)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PRISON · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Latin.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PRISONER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PRISONER starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EINOPRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start PRISON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PRISONER?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
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