The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
COLOUR
Definition of COLOUR
noun
Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
COLOUR inherits its ancestry from its root, COLOR.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,817)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COLOR · 50 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COLOUR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COLOUR starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CLOORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start COLOUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found COLOUR?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER