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RETICENT
Definition of RETICENT
adjective
Unwilling to communicate; keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.
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Where it comes from
Latin reticēns, present participle of reticeō (“to keep silence”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RETICENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RETICENT starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEEINRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and T appear more than once.
Words that start RETICE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RETICENT?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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