The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
COCKLEBUR
Definition of COCKLEBUR
noun
Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From cockle + bur.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, COCKLEBUR · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COCKLEBUR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 137, 4 October 2026.
Built from these letters
COCKLEBUR starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read BCCEKLORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start COCKLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COCKLEBUR?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER