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COLOURS
Definition of COLOURS
noun
plural of colour
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Word DNA
COLOURS 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
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,981)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COLOR · 49 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.
COLOURS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
COLOURS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CLOORSU - 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 7
Could you have found COLOURS?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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