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CONFIDENTIAL
Definition of CONFIDENTIAL
adjective
Kept, or meant to be kept, secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin cōnfīdentia + English -al. Possibly a calque of French confidentiel. First attested in 1641.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,487)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONFIDENTIAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONFIDENTIAL starts with C and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACDEFIILNNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and I appear more than once.
Words that start CONFIDEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONFIDENTIAL?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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