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CONTRIVERS

10 letters

Definition of CONTRIVERS

noun

plural of contriver

CONTRIVER

noun

A person who contrives.

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Word DNA

CONTRIVERS inherits its ancestry from its root, CONTRIVE.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,314)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, CONTRIVE · 7 relatives in the game

Every Old French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

CONTRIVERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its one board, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
139
First board
21
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

vicstarskimmer

on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CONTRIVERS
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CONTRIVERS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEINORRSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Words that start CONTRI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CONTRISTCONTRITECONTRIVECONTRISTSCONTRIVEDCONTRIVERCONTRIVESCONTRIBUTECONTRISTEDCONTRITELYCONTRITIONCONTRIVING

Could you have found CONTRIVERS?

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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