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CONUS

/ˈkəʊnəs/5 letters

Definition of CONUS

noun

A cone.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Latin cōnus (“cone”)

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.

CONUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 120
Its 11 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
30
First board
118
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

swimmer1018

on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found CONUS?

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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