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COMPETENT
Definition of COMPETENT
adjective
Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English competent, conpetent, from Old French competent (modern French compétent), from Latin competens, competentem, present participle of competō (“coincide, be equal to, be capable of”). Compare Dutch competent (“competent”), German kompetent (“competent”), Danish kompetent (“competent”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COMPETENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COMPETENT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEEMNOPTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and T appear more than once.
Words that start COMPET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COMPETENT?
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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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