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CONTREDANSES

12 letters

Definition of CONTREDANSES

noun

plural of contredanse

CONTREDANSE

noun

A folk dance in which two lines of couples face each other.

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Word DNA

CONTREDANSES inherits its ancestry from its root, CONTREDANSE.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,514)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, CONTREDANSE · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CONTREDANSES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its one board, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
172
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 172, 8 November 2026.

Built from these letters

CONTREDANSES
12
Letters
4
Vowels
8
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CONTREDANSES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEENNORSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N, E and S appear more than once.

Words that start CONTREDA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CONTREDANCECONTREDANSE

Could you have found CONTREDANSES?

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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