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CONTORTED
Definition of CONTORTED
verb
simple past and past participle of contort
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Word DNA
CONTORTED inherits its ancestry from its root, CONTORT.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,664)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CONTORT · 2 relatives 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.
CONTORTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONTORTED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDENOORTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and T appear more than once.
Words that start CONTOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONTORTED?
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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.
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