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COAST

/kəʊst/5 letters

Definition of COAST

noun

The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English coste (“rib; side of the body”), from Old French coste (“rib; side of an object; coast”) (modern French côte (“rib; coast; hill, slope”)), from Latin costa (“rib; side, wall”). Doublet of costa. Compare typologically cape < Latin caput, ness (akin to nose), Bulgarian нос (nos, “nose; …; cape, promontory, foreland, gore”), Macedonian’рт (’rt), Serbo-Croatian рт (“cape, promontory, headland”) < Proto-Slavic *rъtъ (whence Russian рот (rot)).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

COAST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 14 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
1
First board
91
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

6 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start COAST

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

COASTSCOASTALCOASTEDCOASTERCOASTERSCOASTINGCOASTALLYCOASTINGSCOASTLANDCOASTLINECOASTWARDCOASTWISE

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