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CONATION
Definition of CONATION
noun
The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnātiō (“an act of attempting”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONATION starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACINNOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and N appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CONATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONATION?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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