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CONTUSE
Definition of CONTUSE
verb
To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From (the participle stem of) Latin contundere (“pound or beat small”), from com- + tundere (“beat, thump”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONTUSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 44, 3 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
CONTUSE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CENOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CONTUS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONTUSE?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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