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CLOWDER
Definition of CLOWDER
noun
A group of cats or other small felines.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
CLOWDER carries 3 further meanings.
noun
a group of cats.
noun
A group of cats.
noun
a group of cats
Where it comes from
A variation, recorded since 1801, of clutter, itself from clot, from Old English clott (“round mass, lump”), from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (hence cognate with Dutch kloot (“ball, testicle”), Danish klods (“a block, lump”) and German Klotz (“lump, block”)).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
37th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (51)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CLOWDER · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CLOWDER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 56 boards so far. 117 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CLOWDER starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CDELORW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found CLOWDER?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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