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PROPRIETY
Definition of PROPRIETY
noun
The particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From late Middle English proprietee, propretee, propriete (“ownership”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman propreté, Middle French proprieté, from Latin proprietās. By surface analysis, prop(e)r + -iety. Doublet of property.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,072)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PROPRIETY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PROPRIETY 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 20 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
PROPRIETY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EIOPPRRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P and R appear more than once.
Words that start PROPRI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PROPRIETY?
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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