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IMBECILITIES

12 letters

Definition of IMBECILITIES

noun

plural of imbecility

IMBECILITY

noun

The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.

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Word DNA

IMBECILITIES inherits its ancestry from its root, IMBECILITY.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,419)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ity

Same root, IMBECILITY · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin 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.

IMBECILITIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 176
Its one board, across 176 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
169
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 169, 5 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

ellenfremedonContributor

on Day 169, 5 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

IMBECILITIES
12
Letters
6
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

IMBECILITIES starts with I and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BCEEIIIILMST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and E appear more than once.

Words that start IMBECILI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

IMBECILICIMBECILITY

Could you have found IMBECILITIES?

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 169 - and most players walked straight past it.

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