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COCKIES

/ˈkɒkiz/7 letters

Definition of COCKIES

noun

plural of cocky

COCKY

adjective

Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.

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Word DNA

COCKIES inherits its ancestry from its root, COCKY.

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound

Same root, COCKY · 1 relative in the game

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.

COCKIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its 2 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
139
First board
153
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First found by a player on Day 139, 6 October 2026.

Built from these letters

COCKIES
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

COCKIES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CCEIKOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.

Words that start COCKIE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found COCKIES?

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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.

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