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CALENDS
Definition of CALENDS
noun
Often with initial capital: the first day of a month.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English calendes, calendas, calendis, kalandes, kalendas, kalendes, kalendez, kalendis, kalendus (also in the singular forms calende, kalend, kalende), from Latin kalendās, accusative plural of kalendae (“first day of a Roman month”), an archaic variant of calandae, from calandus (“which is to be called or announced solemnly”), the future passive participle of calō (“to call, announce solemnly”) (referring to the Roman practice of proclaiming the first days of the lunar month upon seeing the first signs of a new crescent moon), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). Although the singular form calend (now obsolete, rare) appeared in English (and compare Old English calend, kalendus (“calends; a month”)), no singular form was used in Latin as recurring days of the calendar were always referred to in the plural. Sense 2 (“a day for settling debts and other accounts”) refers to the Roman practice of fixing the calends as the day for debts to be paid.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CALENDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CALENDS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDELNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CALEND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found CALENDS?
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