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COMMUTES
Definition of COMMUTES
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of commute
COMMUTE
verb
To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen.
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Word DNA
COMMUTES inherits its ancestry from its root, COMMUTE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COMMUTE · 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.
COMMUTES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COMMUTES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEMMOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COMMUT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COMMUTES?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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