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COUNTY
Definition of COUNTY
noun
The land ruled by a count or a countess.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English countee, counte, conte, from Anglo-Norman counté, Old French conté (French comté), from Latin comitātus (“jurisdiction of a count”), from comes (“count, earl”). Cognate with Spanish condado (“county”) and Italian contea (“county”). Doublet of comitatus, borrowed directly from Latin. Mostly displaced native Old English sċīr, whence Modern English shire.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,117)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COUNTY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Italian, Old English, Spanish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COUNTY in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 47 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 12, 1 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COUNTY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CNOTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found COUNTY?
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