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PROLOGUE

/ˈpɹəʊlɒɡ/8 letters

Definition of PROLOGUE

noun

A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English prologue, prologe, from Old French prologue, from Latin prologus, from Ancient Greek πρόλογος (prólogos). Equivalent to pro- + -logue.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Tier
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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.

PROLOGUE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 16 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
11
First board
97
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 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 11, 31 May 2026.

Built from these letters

PROLOGUE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PROLOGUE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGLOOPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start PROLOG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PROLOGPROLOGSPROLOGEDPROLOGINGPROLOGISEPROLOGISTPROLOGIZEPROLOGUEDPROLOGUESPROLOGISEDPROLOGISESPROLOGISTS

Could you have found PROLOGUE?

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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.

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