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PROLOGUES

9 letters

Definition of PROLOGUES

noun

plural of prologue

PROLOGUE

noun

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

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Word DNA

PROLOGUES inherits its ancestry from its root, PROLOGUE.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Latin
  3. Old French
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.2%

of traced words share this origin (9,501)

Hellenic

branch · 12.2% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-loguepro-

Same root, PROLOGUE · 8 relatives in the game

Every Ancient Greek 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.

PROLOGUES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 18 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
18
Boards found on
25
First board
149
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.

Built from these letters

PROLOGUES
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PROLOGUES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGLOOPRSU - 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.

PROLOGPROLOGSPROLOGEDPROLOGUEPROLOGINGPROLOGISEPROLOGISTPROLOGIZEPROLOGUEDPROLOGISEDPROLOGISESPROLOGISTS

Could you have found PROLOGUES?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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