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COLLARED
Definition of COLLARED
adjective
Having a collar (or other encircling demarcation).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English colered, colleryde; equivalent to collar + -ed.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.5%
of traced words share this origin (2,003)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COLLAR · 2 relatives 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.
COLLARED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COLLARED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDELLOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start COLLAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COLLARED?
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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