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CLOWN
Definition of CLOWN
noun
A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
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Where it comes from
From earlier clowne, cloyne (“man of rustic or coarse manners, boor, peasant”); likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Icelandic klunni (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Swedish kluns (“clumsy fellow”), all from Middle Low German klunz, from klunt (“pile, lump, something thick”); according to Pokorny, this could be related to a group of Germanic derivatives of Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; amass”), such as Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”), Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (“clod, lump”), *kultaz (“lump, bundle”), etc. Alternatively, directly from Low German (compare North Frisian klönne (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Dutch kluns (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Dutch kloen (“uncouth person, lout”)), themselves from the same ultimate source as above. Unlikely from Latin colōnus (“colonist, farmer”), although learned awareness of this term may have influenced semantic development.
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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.
CLOWN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CLOWN starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CLNOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CLOWN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found CLOWN?
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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