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CHOTT

/ʃɒt/5 letters

Definition of CHOTT

noun

A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French chott, from Arabic شَطّ (šaṭṭ). Some of the alternative forms/synonyms (shatt, shat) derive directly from Arabic.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

CHOTT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its 2 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
106
First board
111
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 106, 3 September 2026.

Built from these letters

CHOTT
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start CHOTT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.

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