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CONFEDERATIONS

14 letters

Definition of CONFEDERATIONS

noun

plural of confederation

CONFEDERATION

noun

A union or alliance of states or political organizations.

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Word DNA

CONFEDERATIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, CONFEDERATION.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle French
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (25,695)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, CONFEDERATION · 1 relative 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.

CONFEDERATIONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its 3 boards, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
145
First board
166
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 145, 12 October 2026.

Built from these letters

CONFEDERATIONS
14
Letters
6
Vowels
8
Consonants
11
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CONFEDERATIONS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEEFINNOORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O, N and E appear more than once.

Words that start CONFEDERAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CONFEDERATIONS?

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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.

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