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CERED

5 letters

Definition of CERED

verb

simple past and past participle of cere

CERE

noun

A fleshy, waxy area at the base of the upper beak in certain birds.

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Word DNA

CERED inherits its ancestry from its root, CERE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,914)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, CERE · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

CERED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 155
Its 4 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
102
First board
154
Latest board
28
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 102, 30 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

travelgirl

on Day 102, 30 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CERED
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CERED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEER - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E 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.

Could you have found CERED?

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 102 - and most players walked straight past it.

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