The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
COPPER
Definition of COPPER
noun
A reddish-brown metallic chemical element (symbol Cu) with the atomic number 29; also, the metal made up of this element.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The noun is inherited from Middle English coper, copper (“copper ore; copper metal; bronze”), from Old English coper, copor (“copper”), from Proto-West Germanic *kopr, from Late Latin cuprum (“copper”), a contraction of Latin aes Cyprium (literally “Cyprian brass or copper”), ultimately from Ancient Greek Κῠ́προς (Kŭ́pros, “Cyprus”) (a major source of copper during the Near East’s Bronze Age), from the name of a Northwest Semitic goddess from the root כ־ב־ר/ك ب ر (k b r) (“related to being big, large; great; or old”). Doublet of kobo. The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun. The verb is also derived from the noun. Compare typologically Argentina (< Latin argentum, an opposite semantic shift); turquoise (akin to Turk).
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.
COPPER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COPPER starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEOPPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COPPER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COPPER?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER