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CITE
Definition of CITE
verb
To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
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Where it comes from
From Old French citer, from Latin citare (“to cause to move, excite, summon”), frequentative of ciēre (“to rouse, excite, call”). Sense 4 is the original one.
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.
CITE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 41, 30 June 2026.
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Built from these letters
CITE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEIT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 CITE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CITE?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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