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PRIVATEERS
Definition of PRIVATEERS
noun
plural of privateer
noun
A privately owned warship that acted under a letter of marque to attack enemy merchant ships and take possession of their cargo.
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Word DNA
PRIVATEERS inherits its ancestry from its root, PRIVATE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,066)
How it is built
Same root, PRIVATE · 14 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PRIVATEERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PRIVATEERS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEIPRRSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PRIVAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PRIVATEERS?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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