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COMBINATORY
Definition of COMBINATORY
adjective
Of, relating to, or derived from a combination or combinations; combinative or combinatorial. conditioned on a combination of phonemes (rather than a phoneme changing by itself in any position)
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Where it comes from
From combine + -atory.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COMBINATORY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 53 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
COMBINATORY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ABCIMNOORTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start COMBINA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found COMBINATORY?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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