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PROTUBERANCE
Definition of PROTUBERANCE
noun
A bulge, knob, swelling, spine, or anything that protrudes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French protubérance, from Latin prōtubērantia (“bulge; protuberance”), from prō + tūber (“swelling; protuberance”) + -antia (“-ance”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,176)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PROTUBERANCE · 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.
PROTUBERANCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROTUBERANCE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCEENOPRRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and E appear more than once.
Words that start PROTUBER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PROTUBERANCE?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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