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PROHIBIT

/pɹəˈhɪbɪt/8 letters

Definition of PROHIBIT

verb

To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English prohibiten, from Latin prohibeō (“to fend off, prevent, prohibit”) (through past participle prohibitus).

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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.

PROHIBIT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 112
Its 6 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
28
First board
104
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.

Built from these letters

PROHIBIT
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PROHIBIT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BHIIOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start PROHIB

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PROHIBITSPROHIBITEDPROHIBITERPROHIBITORPROHIBITERSPROHIBITINGPROHIBITIONPROHIBITIVEPROHIBITORSPROHIBITORYPROHIBITIONSPROHIBITIVELY

Could you have found PROHIBIT?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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