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COLLIERS
Definition of COLLIERS
noun
plural of collier
noun
A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel). A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.
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Word DNA
COLLIERS inherits its ancestry from its root, COLLIER.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,038)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COLLIER · 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.
COLLIERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COLLIERS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEILLORS - 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 COLLIE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COLLIERS?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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