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COMMUNICATE
Definition of COMMUNICATE
verb
To impart. To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
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Where it comes from
Adapted borrowing of Latin commūnicāt- (past participial stem of commūnicō (“share, impart; make common”)) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from commūnis (“common”) + -icō. Compare French communiquer and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, communique.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,664)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COMMUNICATE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Middle French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COMMUNICATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COMMUNICATE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACCEIMMNOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and M appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COMMUNI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COMMUNICATE?
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