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CREDO

/ˈkɹidəʊ/5 letters

Definition of CREDO

noun

A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English credo, from Old French credo, from Latin crēdō (“to believe”); doublet of creed.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,914)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllables

Same root, CREDO · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CREDO in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 117 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 156
Its 35 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
35
Boards found on
31
First board
155
Latest board
19
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

gattorade

on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CREDO
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CREDO starts with C and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read CDEOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start CREDO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CREDO?

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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.

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