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COMELIEST

9 letters

Definition of COMELIEST

adjective

superlative form of comely: most comely

COMELY

adjective

Attractive; visually pleasing; good-looking. Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.

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Word DNA

COMELIEST inherits its ancestry from its root, COMELY.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,223)

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Same root, COMELY · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Latin.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

COMELIEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 52 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 28 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
28
Boards found on
36
First board
158
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

drneverlandPATRON

on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

COMELIEST
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

COMELIEST starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEEILMOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start COMELI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found COMELIEST?

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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.

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