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COMMERCE
Definition of COMMERCE
noun
The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium. Doublet of comess. Displaced native Old English mangung.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,330)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COMMERCE · 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.
COMMERCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COMMERCE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CCEEMMOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C, M and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COMMER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COMMERCE?
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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.
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