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COCTILE

/ˈkɒktɪl/7 letters

Definition of COCTILE

adjective

Made by baking, or exposure to heat. of earthenware of bread

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from the Latin coctilis (“burned, built of burned bricks”), from coquō (“to cook, to roast or dry”).

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Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

32.5%

of traced words share this origin (8,497)

Italic

branch · 32.5% of traced words

How it is built

adjective2 syllables

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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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.

COCTILE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 131
Its one board, across 131 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
131
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

gretabee

on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

COCTILE
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found COCTILE?

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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.

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