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SUBJECT
Definition of SUBJECT
adjective
Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English subget, from Old French suget, from Latin subiectus (“lying under or near, adjacent, also subject, exposed”), as a noun, subiectus (“a subject, an inferior”), subiectum (“the subject of a proposition”), past participle of subiciō (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ὑποκείμενον (hupokeímenon).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,240)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SUBJECT · 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.
SUBJECT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 96, 24 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.
First found by a player on Day 96, 24 August 2026.
Built from these letters
SUBJECT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BCEJSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start SUBJEC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SUBJECT?
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