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NOCENT
Definition of NOCENT
adjective
Causing injury; harmful.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English nocent (“guilty”), from Latin nocens, present participle of nocere (“to harm”). Doublet of nuisant.
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 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,457)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, NOCENT · 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.
NOCENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 139, 6 October 2026.
Built from these letters
NOCENT starts with N and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CENNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Could you have found NOCENT?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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