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COMMUNALIST
Definition of COMMUNALIST
adjective
Of, relating to, or supporting, communalism.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compare French communaliste.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,509)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COMMUNALIST · 1 relative 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.
COMMUNALIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 172, 8 November 2026.
Built from these letters
COMMUNALIST starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACILMMNOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COMMUNA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COMMUNALIST?
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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.
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