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CONGRATULATED

13 letters

Definition of CONGRATULATED

verb

simple past and past participle of congratulate

CONGRATULATE

verb

To express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for

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Word DNA

CONGRATULATED inherits its ancestry from its root, CONGRATULATE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33%

of traced words share this origin (9,424)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-ate-orcon-

Same root, CONGRATULATE · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

CONGRATULATED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 140
Its one board, across 140 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
138
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

ccristee

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CONGRATULATED
13
Letters
5
Vowels
8
Consonants
11
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CONGRATULATED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AACDEGLNORTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once.

Words that start CONGRATUL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CONGRATULATECONGRATULATESCONGRATULATORCONGRATULATINGCONGRATULATIONCONGRATULATORSCONGRATULATORYCONGRATULATIONS

Could you have found CONGRATULATED?

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