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PROCEED

/pɹəˈsiːd/7 letters

Definition of PROCEED

verb

To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English proceden, from Old French proceder, from Latin prōcēdō (“to go forth, go forward, advance”), from prō (“forth”) + cēdō (“to go”); see cede.

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.

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Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 5 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
24
First board
97
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Built from these letters

PROCEED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PROCEED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEEOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

COPEREDPRECODE

Words that start PROCEE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PROCEEDSPROCEEDEDPROCEEDERPROCEEDERSPROCEEDINGPROCEEDINGS

Could you have found PROCEED?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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