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COCKERELS

9 letters

Definition of COCKERELS

noun

plural of cockerel

COCKEREL

noun

A young male chicken.

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Word DNA

COCKERELS inherits its ancestry from its root, COCKEREL.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,320)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-rel

Same root, COCKEREL · 1 relative in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

COCKERELS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 177
Its one board, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
24
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.

First ever to find it

seth

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

COCKERELS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

COCKERELS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CCEEKLORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and E appear more than once.

Words that start COCKER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

COCKERCOCKERSCOCKEREDCOCKERELCOCKERINGCOCKERMEGCOCKERMEGSCOCKERNONY

Could you have found COCKERELS?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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