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COLOURIST

9 letters

About COLOURIST

COLOURIST is a valid 9-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.

No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

COLOURIST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 96
Its one board, across 96 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
84
First board
12
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 84, 12 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

bizzo

on Day 84, 12 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

COLOURIST
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

COLOURIST starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CILOORSTU - 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.

COLOURCOLOURSCOLOURYCOLOUREDCOLOURERCOLOURANTCOLOUREDSCOLOURERSCOLOURFULCOLOURINGCOLOURISECOLOURIZE

Could you have found COLOURIST?

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 84 - and most players walked straight past it.

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