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PROLIFIC
Definition of PROLIFIC
adjective
Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
First use appears c. 1635. From French prolifique and its etymon Latin prōlificus, from prōlēs (“offspring”) + -ficus (“making”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PROLIFIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 146 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PROLIFIC starts with P and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CFIILOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start PROLIF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found PROLIFIC?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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