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COMES

/kʌmz/5 letters

Definition of COMES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of come

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Where it comes from

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

COMES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 3 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
30
First board
89
Latest board
40
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 89, 17 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.

First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start COMES

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

COMESTIBLECOMESTIBLES

Could you have found COMES?

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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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