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CONFIGURATE
Definition of CONFIGURATE
verb
To configure; to arrange or shape.
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Where it comes from
First attested in 1566; borrowed from Latin cōnfigūrātus, perfect passive participle of cōnfigūrō (“to form or alter”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of configure.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONFIGURATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CONFIGURATE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEFGINORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CONFIGU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found CONFIGURATE?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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