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CHOSE

/t͡ʃəʊz/5 letters

Definition of CHOSE

verb

simple past of choose and chuse

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb1 syllable

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

CHOSE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 149
Its 7 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
24
First board
149
Latest board
37
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Also on

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start CHOSE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CHOSENCHOSES

Could you have found CHOSE?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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