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CENTROIDS
Definition of CENTROIDS
noun
plural of centroid
noun
The point at which gravitational force (or other universally and uniformly acting force) may be supposed to act on a given rigid, uniformly dense body; the centre of gravity or centre of mass.
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Word DNA
CENTROIDS inherits its ancestry from its root, CENTROID.
How it is built
Same root, CENTROID · 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.
CENTROIDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 64, 23 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 71, 30 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CENTROIDS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDEINORST - 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 CENTRO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CENTROIDS?
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 64 - and most players walked straight past it.
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