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COPING
Definition of COPING
noun
The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From cope + -ing. The sense referring to a brick wall is cope (sense 2), used in the sense "dress in a cope," "to cover."
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.
COPING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
COPING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CGINOP - 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 COPING
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found COPING?
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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