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CONFABULATES
Definition of CONFABULATES
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of confabulate
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Another sense
CONFABULATES carries a second meaning.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confabulate.
Word DNA
CONFABULATES inherits its ancestry from its root, CONFABULATE.
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 (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CONFABULATE · 2 relatives in the game
CONFABULATES in a sentence
“I suspect that a lot of this is because my brain confabulates details in that semiconscious stage just before waking, patching in cause and effect and rationalizations to explain just why I and the cast of Firefly are on a mission to replace the Pope with a robot double.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONFABULATES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 78 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 71, 30 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONFABULATES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABCEFLNOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CONFABUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONFABULATES?
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 71 - and most players walked straight past it.
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