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CIRCUMVENT
Definition of CIRCUMVENT
verb
to avoid or get around something; to bypass
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin circumveniō.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,695)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CIRCUMVENT · 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.
CIRCUMVENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 34 days.
Built from these letters
CIRCUMVENT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CCEIMNRTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start CIRCUM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CIRCUMVENT?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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