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COMPRESS
Definition of COMPRESS
verb
To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English compressen, from Old French compresser, from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprimō (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + premō (“press”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,234)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COMPRESS · 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.
COMPRESS 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 33 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
COMPRESS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEMOPRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COMPRE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COMPRESS?
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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