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CENTURION
Definition of CENTURION
noun
An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English centurioun, from Latin centuriō, centuriōnis (“a commander of a hundred, centurion”), from Latin centum (“a hundred”). Displaced native English hundreder and hundredman, from Middle English hundredman, from Old English hundredmann (“centurion”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,378)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CENTURION · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CENTURION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CENTURION starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CEINNORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CENTUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CENTURION?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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