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CALUMNIATED

11 letters

Definition of CALUMNIATED

verb

simple past and past participle of calumniate

CALUMNIATE

verb

To make hurtful untrue comments about.

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Word DNA

CALUMNIATED inherits its ancestry from its root, CALUMNIATE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33%

of traced words share this origin (9,764)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

verb-ate

Same root, CALUMNIATE · 2 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CALUMNIATED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 17 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
17
Boards found on
44
First board
150
Latest board
34
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

atomicgypsy

on Day 44, 3 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CALUMNIATED
11
Letters
5
Vowels
6
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CALUMNIATED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AACDEILMNTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start CALUMNI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CALUMNIEDCALUMNIESCALUMNIATECALUMNIOUSCALUMNIABLECALUMNIATESCALUMNIATORCALUMNIATINGCALUMNIATIONCALUMNIATORSCALUMNIATORYCALUMNIOUSLY

Could you have found CALUMNIATED?

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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.

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