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COIFING
Definition of COIFING
verb
present participle and gerund of coif
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Word DNA
COIFING inherits its ancestry from its root, COIF.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,647)
How it is built
Same root, COIF · 5 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COIFING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
COIFING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CFGIINO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found COIFING?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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