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CUNEIFORMS
Definition of CUNEIFORMS
noun
plural of cuneiform
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Another sense
CUNEIFORMS carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of cuneiform.
Word DNA
CUNEIFORMS inherits its ancestry from its root, CUNEIFORM.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CUNEIFORM · 1 relative in the game
CUNEIFORMS in a sentence
“On the cart lay the following: proximal and distal portions of a left femur; a fragment of proximal left fibula; two fragments of left tibia, one proximal, the other distal, including the mangled malleolus; a portion of left pelvis extending from the pubic bone out into the blade; the talus, navicular, and third and second cuneiforms from a left foot.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CUNEIFORMS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 53 boards so far. 155 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CUNEIFORMS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEFIMNORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CUNEIF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found CUNEIFORMS?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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