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ROMANIZES
Definition of ROMANIZES
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of romanize
ROMANIZE
verb
To put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet.
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Word DNA
ROMANIZES inherits its ancestry from its root, ROMANIZE.
How it is built
Same root, ROMANIZE · 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.
ROMANIZES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROMANIZES starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEIMNORSZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ROMANI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ROMANIZES?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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