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COALY
Definition of COALY
adjective
Resembling coal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From coal + -y. Compare colly.
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.
COALY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 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 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
COALY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACLOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COALY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found COALY?
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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