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COLTED

6 letters

Definition of COLTED

verb

simple past and past participle of colt

COLT

noun

A young male horse.

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Word DNA

COLTED inherits its ancestry from its root, COLT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.3%

of traced words share this origin (11,293)

How it is built

verb

Same root, COLT · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Norwegian, Swedish.

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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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.

COLTED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 160
Its 12 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
48
First board
138
Latest board
36
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.

First found by a player on Day 48, 7 July 2026.

Built from these letters

COLTED
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

COLTED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDELOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found COLTED?

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 48 - and most players walked straight past it.

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