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CINQUES
Definition of CINQUES
noun
plural of cinque
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Word DNA
CINQUES inherits its ancestry from its root, CINQUE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.7%
of traced words share this origin (1,346)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CINQUE · 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.
CINQUES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CINQUES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEINQSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
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 CINQUE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CINQUES?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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