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CONTRARIETIES
Definition of CONTRARIETIES
noun
plural of contrariety
CONTRARIETY
noun
Opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.
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Word DNA
CONTRARIETIES inherits its ancestry from its root, CONTRARIETY.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,914)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CONTRARIETY · 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.
CONTRARIETIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 138, 5 October 2026.
Built from these letters
CONTRARIETIES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEEIINORRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T, R, I and E appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CONTRARIE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONTRARIETIES?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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