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CONFABULATOR

12 letters

Definition of CONFABULATOR

noun

One who confabulates.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From confabulate + -or.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

CONFABULATOR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 100
Its 3 boards, across 100 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
79
First board
100
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 79, 7 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

maybzkaybz

on Day 79, 7 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CONFABULATOR
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CONFABULATOR starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AABCFLNOORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and A appear more than once.

Words that start CONFABUL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CONFABULATOR?

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 79 - and most players walked straight past it.

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