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CENTS
Definition of CENTS
noun
plural of cent
noun
A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
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Word DNA
CENTS inherits its ancestry from its root, CENT.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
9.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,359)
How it is built
Same root, CENT · 2 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CENTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 126, 23 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CENTS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CENST - 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.
Could you have found CENTS?
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 126 - and most players walked straight past it.
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