The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PROMPTITUDE
Definition of PROMPTITUDE
noun
The quality of being prompt; alacrity.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English promptitude, from Late Latin prōmptitūdō, from Classical Latin prōmptus. By surface analysis, prompt + -itude.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.5%
of traced words share this origin (24,890)
branch · 30.5% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PROMPTITUDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROMPTITUDE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEIMOPPRTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P and T appear more than once.
Words that start PROMPTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PROMPTITUDE?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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