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CABOSHED

/kəˈbɒt͡ʃ/8 letters

Definition of CABOSHED

adjective

Shown face-on, showing the full face, but cut off immediately behind the ears and hence showing nothing of the neck.

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Where it comes from

From French caboché, past participle of cabocher, from caboche (“head”) (compare cabbage). See -ed.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7%

of traced words share this origin (1,806)

Romance

branch · 15.1% of traced words

How it is built

adjective2 syllables-ed

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CABOSHED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 128
Its 2 boards, across 128 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
128
Latest board
56
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 128, 25 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

gwinSUPPORTER

on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CABOSHED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CABOSHED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABCDEHOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found CABOSHED?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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