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COPROLITE
Definition of COPROLITE
noun
A fossil consisting of petrified dung.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
COPROLITE carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Fossilized excrement.
noun
Any rounded concretionary mass or pebble containing largely calcium phosphate and representing the more or less altered debris of fossil bones, teeth, etc., used as a source of phosphoric acid in the manufacture of fertilizers.
noun
A hard roudish stony mass, consisting of the petrified fecal matter of animals, chiefly of extinct reptiles or sauroid fishes.
noun
A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.
Where it comes from
From copro- + -lite.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, COPROLITE · 1 relative in the game
COPROLITE in a sentence
“The fossilized dino dung, called coprolite, made its way to”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COPROLITE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 93 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COPROLITE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEILOOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start COPROL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found COPROLITE?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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