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COBALT
Definition of COBALT
noun
A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.
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Where it comes from
From German Kobalt, formerly also Kobald, ‑olt, ‑old, ‑elt, ‑el, apparently the same word as Kobold (“goblin”), from Middle High German, which became also a Harz Mountains silver miners’ term for rock laced with arsenic and sulfur, so called because it degraded the ore and made the miners ill. Doublet of kobold.
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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.
COBALT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
COBALT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABCLOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COBALT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found COBALT?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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