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CONFABULATE
Definition of CONFABULATE
verb
To speak casually with; to chat.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
CONFABULATE carries 4 further meanings.
intransitive verb
To talk casually; chat.
intransitive verb
To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.
To talk familiarly together; chat; prattle.
intransitive verb
To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.
Where it comes from
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin cōnfābulātus, perfect active participle of cōnfābulor, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (10,004)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CONFABULATE · 2 relatives in the game
CONFABULATE in a sentence
“I sketch rather than describe in detail, letting the readers confabulate to fill in the whole picture.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONFABULATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 127 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONFABULATE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABCEFLNOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of CONFABULATE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start CONFABU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found CONFABULATE?
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