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COLUMBINE
Definition of COLUMBINE
noun
Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the Latin colombina herba (“dove-like plant”), the flower being likened to five clustered pigeons.
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.
COLUMBINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
COLUMBINE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BCEILMNOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COLUMB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found COLUMBINE?
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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