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COLONY
Definition of COLONY
noun
A geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English colane, colonye, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and Köln.
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.
COLONY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
COLONY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CLNOOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found COLONY?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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