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CENTINELL

9 letters

Definition of CENTINELL

noun

Obsolete form of sentinel.

SENTINEL

noun

A sentry, watch, or guard.

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Word DNA

CENTINELL inherits its ancestry from its root, SENTINEL.

Line of descent

  1. Italian
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Italian

Deepest traced root

10th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.7%

of traced words share this origin (1,422)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ella

Same root, SENTINEL · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CENTINELL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its one board, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
145
First board
28
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.

First ever to find it

swellsort

on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CENTINELL
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CENTINELL starts with C and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read CEEILLNNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E, N and L appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start CENTIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CENTINELCENTINELSCENTINELLS

Could you have found CENTINELL?

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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.

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