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SINCE
Definition of SINCE
adverb
From a specified time in the past.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English syns, synnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after, since”) (+ -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since, after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”), Icelandic síðan (“since”) Scots syne (“since”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,908)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, German, Icelandic, Scots.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SINCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SINCE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEINS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 SINCE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found SINCE?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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