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PROTHALAMION
Definition of PROTHALAMION
noun
A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
After Prothalamion, title of a 16th-century poem by Edmund Spenser, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “for”) + thalamion, as in epithalamion.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PROTHALAMION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 123, 20 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 123, 20 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROTHALAMION starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAHILMNOOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and A appear more than once.
Words that start PROTHALA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PROTHALAMION?
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 123 - and most players walked straight past it.
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