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PROFLIGATES

11 letters

Definition of PROFLIGATES

noun

plural of profligate

PROFLIGATE

adjective

Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.

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Another sense

PROFLIGATES carries a second meaning.

  1. noun

    Plural form of profligate.

Word DNA

PROFLIGATES inherits its ancestry from its root, PROFLIGATE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,643)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-atepro-

Same root, PROFLIGATE · 2 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

PROFLIGATES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 72 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 147
Its 39 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
39
Boards found on
22
First board
142
Latest board
19
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

adree

on Day 22, 11 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PROFLIGATES
11
Letters
4
Vowels
7
Consonants
11
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start PROFLIG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PROFLIGATES?

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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.

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