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CROMULENT
Definition of CROMULENT
adjective
Acceptable, satisfactory, or valid.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Another sense
CROMULENT carries a second meaning.
adjective
Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
Where it comes from
A humorous, intentionally morphologically opaque neologism and nonce word coined by American television writer David X. Cohen for “Lisa the Iconoclast”, a 1996 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons. The ending resembles corpulent, temulent and other Latinate adjectives (derived from -ulentus (“full of, abounding in”)).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,330)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
CROMULENT in a sentence
“As a – logism, neo – or paleo -, this is decided un-cromulent.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CROMULENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 353 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 103, 31 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 103, 31 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CROMULENT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CELMNORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CROMUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CROMULENT?
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