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COMBINATE
Definition of COMBINATE
noun
The result of a combining of two or more components.
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Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin combīnātus.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COMBINATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
COMBINATE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCEIMNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COMBIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found COMBINATE?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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