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CUBITS
Definition of CUBITS
noun
plural of cubit, an ancient unit of measurement
noun
The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.
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Word DNA
CUBITS inherits its ancestry from its root, CUBIT.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,478)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CUBIT · 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.
CUBITS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 235 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CUBITS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BCISTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found CUBITS?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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