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CIVIC
Definition of CIVIC
adjective
Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin cīvicus (“pertaining to a city or citizens”).
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 (26,072)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CIVIC · 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.
CIVIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CIVIC starts with C and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CCIIV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and I appear more than once. It reads the same backwards - a palindrome, and there are not many in the dictionary this game plays from.
Words that start CIVIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CIVIC?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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