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SENTINEL
Definition of SENTINEL
noun
A sentry, watch, or guard.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
First attested in the 1570s from Middle French sentinelle (“watch or guard kept by a soldier”), from Old Italian sentinella, probably from sentina + -ella, from sentire (“perceive, watch, hear”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive by the senses”). See also sense, sentient.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Italian
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.7%
of traced words share this origin (1,392)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SENTINEL · 3 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.
SENTINEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 169, 5 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SENTINEL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EEILNNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and N appear more than once.
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 SENTIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SENTINEL?
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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.
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