The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
CONTOUR
Definition of CONTOUR
noun
An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French contour, from contourner, equivalent to con- + tour.
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.
CONTOUR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CONTOUR starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CNOORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CONTOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONTOUR?
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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