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COLLY
Definition of COLLY
adjective
Black as coal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English coly, from Old English *coliġ, from Proto-West Germanic *kolig, equivalent to coal + -y. Doublet of coaly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COLLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 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
COLLY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CLLOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COLLY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COLLY?
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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