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CHOLER
Definition of CHOLER
noun
Yellow bile.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
CHOLER carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Anger; irritability.
noun
One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, thought to cause anger and bad temper when present in excess; yellow bile.
noun
The quality and condition of being bilious.
noun
The bile.
Where it comes from
From Middle English coler (“yellow bile”), from Old French colere (“bile, anger”), from Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). Doublet of cholera.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,094)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CHOL · 2 relatives in the game
CHOLER in a sentence
“There likewise were plums and cherries and grapes, that the sick of all diseases assain and do away giddiness and yellow choler from the brain; and figs the branches between, varicoloured red and green, amazing sight and sense, even as saith the poet,”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHOLER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 59 boards so far. 133 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CHOLER starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEHLOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of CHOLER. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CHOLER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found CHOLER?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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