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PROPITIOUS
Definition of PROPITIOUS
adjective
Favorable; advantageous.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Anglo-Norman and Old French propicius, from Latin propitius (“favorable, well-disposed, kind”). Compare French propice, Portuguese propício and Spanish propicio.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- Anglo-Norman
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,170)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PROPITIOUS · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Portuguese, Spanish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PROPITIOUS 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 14 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
PROPITIOUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read IIOOPPRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P, O and I appear more than once.
Words that start PROPIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PROPITIOUS?
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