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COLONUS
Definition of COLONUS
noun
A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin colōnus.
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.
COLONUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 115, 12 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 115, 12 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COLONUS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CLNOOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Could you have found COLONUS?
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 115 - and most players walked straight past it.
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