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IMBROGLIOS

10 letters

Definition of IMBROGLIOS

noun

plural of imbroglio

IMBROGLIO

noun

A complicated situation; an entanglement.

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Word DNA

IMBROGLIOS inherits its ancestry from its root, IMBROGLIO.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. Italian
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.2%

of traced words share this origin (2,103)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompoundem-en-im-in-

Same root, IMBROGLIO · 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.

IMBROGLIOS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 51 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 147
Its 21 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
29
First board
124
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First ever to find it

mfhillman

on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

IMBROGLIOS
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start IMBROG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found IMBROGLIOS?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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