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COMFORT
Definition of COMFORT
noun
Contentment, ease.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English comfort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confortō. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,038)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COMFORT · 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.
COMFORT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
COMFORT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CFMOORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start COMFOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found COMFORT?
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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