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CAPITALS
Definition of CAPITALS
noun
plural of capital
noun
Money and wealth: the means to acquire or produce goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
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Word DNA
CAPITALS inherits its ancestry from its root, CAPITAL.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,908)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CAPITAL · 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.
CAPITALS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CAPITALS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACILPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
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 CAPITA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found CAPITALS?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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