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COMPOSTURED
Definition of COMPOSTURED
Wiktionary has no entry for COMPOSTURED itself. This is its base word, COMPOSTURE.
noun
Compost, composted manure.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for COMPOSTURE.
Borrowed from Middle French composture (“compost”), from late Old French composture, possibly from Latin compositūra, compostūra (“composition”); equivalent to compost + -ure. Compare Portuguese compostura, Spanish compostura.
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.
COMPOSTURED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 40 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 55, 14 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COMPOSTURED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEMOOPRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
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 COMPOST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 55
Could you have found COMPOSTURED?
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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.
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