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COLUBRID
Definition of COLUBRID
noun
Any snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous.
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Where it comes from
From translingual Colubridae, from the genus translingual Coluber, from Latin coluber (“snake”).
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.
COLUBRID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 43, 2 July 2026.
Built from these letters
COLUBRID starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BCDILORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COLUBR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found COLUBRID?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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