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CONGEALED

9 letters

Definition of CONGEALED

verb

simple past and past participle of congeal

CONGEAL

verb

To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.

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Word DNA

CONGEALED inherits its ancestry from its root, CONGEAL.

Line of descent

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

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (24,726)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, CONGEAL · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Portuguese, Spanish.

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Rarity score
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CONGEALED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 52 boards so far. 274 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 161
Its 52 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
52
Boards found on
10
First board
159
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.

Built from these letters

CONGEALED
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CONGEALED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDEEGLNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start CONGEA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CONGEALCONGEALSCONGEALERCONGEALERSCONGEALINGCONGEALABLECONGEALMENTCONGEALMENTS

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