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INVENTORY
Definition of INVENTORY
noun
The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English inventorie, from Medieval Latin inventōrium, alteration of Late Latin inventārium, from Latin inveniō (“to find out”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,695)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, INVENTORY · 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.
INVENTORY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 132, 29 September 2026.
Built from these letters
INVENTORY starts with I and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EINNORTVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start INVENT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found INVENTORY?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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