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CHOW
Definition of CHOW
noun
Food, especially snacks.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Shortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHOW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CHOW starts with C and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read CHOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CHOW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found CHOW?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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