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CENTRIES

8 letters

Definition of CENTRIES

noun

plural of centry

SENTRY · via centry

noun

A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.

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Word DNA

CENTRIES inherits its ancestry from its root, SENTRY.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (24,117)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, SENTRY · 3 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

CENTRIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its one board, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
81
First board
78
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 78 days.

First found by a player on Day 81, 9 August 2026.

Built from these letters

CENTRIES
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CENTRIES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEEINRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start CENTRI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CENTRIES?

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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.

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