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COMPLAISANT
Definition of COMPLAISANT
adjective
Compliant.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French complaisant (“willing to please”), from complaire, from Latin complacēre (“please well”), from com- (“with”) + placeō (“please”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,981)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COMPLAISANT · 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.
COMPLAISANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COMPLAISANT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AACILMNOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start COMPLAI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found COMPLAISANT?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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