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CEASE
About CEASE
CEASE is a valid 5-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CEASE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
CEASE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEES - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E 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 CEASE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found CEASE?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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