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CONTRARIANS
Definition of CONTRARIANS
noun
plural of contrarian
noun
A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people, usually because of nonconformity or spite.
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Word DNA
CONTRARIANS inherits its ancestry from its root, CONTRARIAN.
How it is built
Same root, CONTRARIAN · 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.
CONTRARIANS 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 10 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
CONTRARIANS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACINNORRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N, R and A appear more than once.
Words that start CONTRAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONTRARIANS?
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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