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COMER

/ˈkʌmɚ/5 letters

Definition of COMER

noun

One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English comere, equivalent to come + -er.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

COMER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 117
Its 6 boards, across 117 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
19
First board
103
Latest board
28
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

woodvaletoo

on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

COMER
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start COMER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found COMER?

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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.

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