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CLOTE

5 letters

Definition of CLOTE

noun

The common burdock; the clotbur.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English clote, from Old English clāte, from Proto-West Germanic *klaitā.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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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.

CLOTE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 3 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
25
First board
78
Latest board
47
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 78, 6 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.

First ever to find it

travelgirl

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

TELCO

Words that start CLOTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CLOTE?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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