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COCKLEBURS

10 letters

Definition of COCKLEBURS

noun

plural of cocklebur

COCKLEBUR

noun

Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.

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Word DNA

COCKLEBURS inherits its ancestry from its root, COCKLEBUR.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, COCKLEBUR · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

COCKLEBURS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 154
Its one board, across 154 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

xerxthrock

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

Built from these letters

COCKLEBURS
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

COCKLEBURS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BCCEKLORSU - 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 COCKLEBURS?

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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