The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
COLPORTAGE
Definition of COLPORTAGE
noun
The distribution or selling of publications via carriers, particularly devotional literature.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
1840s, from French colportage, from colporteur (1723).
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.
COLPORTAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 88, 16 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 84, 12 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COLPORTAGE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEGLOOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start COLPOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COLPORTAGE?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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