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COLES

/kəʊlz/5 letters

Definition of COLES

noun

plural of cole

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

COLES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 118
Its 6 boards, across 118 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
6
First board
118
Latest board
42
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.

Built from these letters

COLES
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

COLES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CELOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start COLES

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

COLESEEDCOLESLAWCOLESSEECOLESSORCOLESEEDSCOLESLAWSCOLESSEESCOLESSORSCOLESTIPOLCOLESTIPOLS

Could you have found COLES?

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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.

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