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CIVILISE
Definition of CIVILISE
verb
To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From civil + -ise.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CIVIL · 4 relatives 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.
CIVILISE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 169, 5 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 169, 5 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CIVILISE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEIIILSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start CIVILI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CIVILISE?
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 169 - and most players walked straight past it.
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