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DUCT
Definition of DUCT
noun
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix). Doublet of ductus and douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus (“a conveyance of water; a channel”), which itself has the first mentioned etymology.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,343)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DUCT · 4 relatives 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.
DUCT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 67 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DUCT starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CDTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DUCT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found DUCT?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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