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CONTRAVENES
Definition of CONTRAVENES
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of contravene
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Word DNA
CONTRAVENES inherits its ancestry from its root, CONTRAVENE.
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 (26,450)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CONTRAVENE · 4 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.
CONTRAVENES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONTRAVENES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEENNORSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N 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 CONTRAV
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONTRAVENES?
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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.
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