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CULTURES

8 letters

Definition of CULTURES

noun

plural of culture

CULTURE

noun

The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.

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Word DNA

CULTURES inherits its ancestry from its root, CULTURE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Middle French
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

8.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,636)

How it is built

noun

Same root, CULTURE · 3 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

CULTURES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 9 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
29
First board
141
Latest board
51
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

mayp85

on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

CULTURES
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CULTURES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CELRSTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.

Words that start CULTUR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CULTURES?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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