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COMMENDABLE
Definition of COMMENDABLE
adjective
Worthy of commendation; deserving praise; admirable, creditable, or meritorious.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English commendable, from Middle French commendable, from Latin commendabilis, from commendare (“to commend, intrust to”), from com- + mandare (“to commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,695)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
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.
COMMENDABLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COMMENDABLE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCDEELMMNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COMMEND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COMMENDABLE?
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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.
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