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CATTERY

/ˈkætəɹi/7 letters

Definition of CATTERY

noun

A place where cats board when their owners are on holiday.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From cat + -ery.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun3 syllablescompound-ery

Same root, CAT · 28 relatives in the game

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.

CATTERY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 4 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
90
First board
137
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.

Built from these letters

CATTERY
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CATTERY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACERTTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start CATTER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CATTERY?

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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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