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PRIVATE
Definition of PRIVATE
adjective
Belonging or pertaining to an individual person, group of people, or entity that is not the state.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English privat(e) (“individual, exclusive, private”), from Latin prīvātus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from, release”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“to bereave, deprive, release”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more), from prīvus (“private, one's own, proper”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine. Doublet of privy.
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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.
PRIVATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PRIVATE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEIPRTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PRIVAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PRIVATE?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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