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CONFABULATES

12 letters

Definition of CONFABULATES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of confabulate

CONFABULATE

verb

To speak casually with; to chat.

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Word DNA

CONFABULATES inherits its ancestry from its root, CONFABULATE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,595)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

verb-ate

Same root, CONFABULATE · 2 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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 18 boards so far. 72 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 145
Its 18 boards, across 145 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
18
Boards found on
71
First board
144
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

hannahthemouse

on Day 71, 30 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CONFABULATES
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
11
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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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