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COLTISH
Definition of COLTISH
adjective
Resembling a colt, especially: Lively, playful and undisciplined (often in a manner judged to be immature).
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Other senses
COLTISH carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Relating to or suggestive of a colt.
adjective
Lively and playful; frisky.
Like a colt.
Frisky; gay; wanton; licentious.
Where it comes from
From Middle English coltyssh. By surface analysis, colt + -ish.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (5,064)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COLTISH · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COLTISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 95 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COLTISH starts with C and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read CHILOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of COLTISH. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start COLTIS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 47
Could you have found COLTISH?
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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.
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