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COMMERCES
Definition of COMMERCES
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative 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.
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Word DNA
COMMERCES inherits its ancestry from its root, COMMERCE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,981)
branch · 30.7% 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.
COMMERCES 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 4 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
COMMERCES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CCEEMMORS - 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 COMMERCES?
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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