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COMFORTING
Definition of COMFORTING
adjective
Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.
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Word DNA
COMFORTING inherits its ancestry from its root, COMFORT.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,226)
branch · 22.3% 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.
COMFORTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
COMFORTING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CFGIMNOORT - 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 8
Could you have found COMFORTING?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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