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CONGRATULATE
Definition of CONGRATULATE
verb
To express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for
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Where it comes from
First attested in 1548; borrowed from Latin congrātulātus, the perfect active participle of Latin congrātulor (“to wish joy, rejoice (with); to congratulate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from con- + grātulor, from grātus (“grateful, pleasing, agreeable, beloved”) + -or. By surface analysis, con- + gratulate.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,457)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CONGRATULATE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONGRATULATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONGRATULATE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACEGLNORTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once.
Words that start CONGRATU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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