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CONNIVES
Definition of CONNIVES
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of connive
verb
To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
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Word DNA
CONNIVES inherits its ancestry from its root, CONNIVE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,616)
How it is built
Same root, CONNIVE · 2 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONNIVES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONNIVES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEINNOSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start CONNIV
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONNIVES?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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