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CENTUM
Definition of CENTUM
adjective
Referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.
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Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin centum (“hundred”), attested at least since 1890s. Its use in linguistics is due to it being a canonical example of a word retaining an original velar stop, as opposed to Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬨 (satəm). Doublet of hundred and satem.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CENTUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CENTUM starts with C and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read CEMNTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CENTUM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 42
Could you have found CENTUM?
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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.
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