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CITIZENS
Definition of CITIZENS
noun
plural of citizen
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Word DNA
CITIZENS inherits its ancestry from its root, CITIZEN.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (10,004)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CITIZEN · 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.
CITIZENS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 68, 27 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 86 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CITIZENS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEIINSTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
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 CITIZE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found CITIZENS?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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