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CONFIXES

8 letters

Definition of CONFIXES

noun

plural of confix

CONFIX

noun

An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix attached simultaneously to the root.

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Word DNA

CONFIXES inherits its ancestry from its root, CONFIX.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,951)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompoundcon-

Same root, CONFIX · 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.

CONFIXES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 157
Its one board, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
144
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

ariokart

on Day 144, 11 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CONFIXES
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CONFIXES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEFINOSX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start CONFIX

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CONFIXCONFIXEDCONFIXING

Could you have found CONFIXES?

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 144 - and most players walked straight past it.

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