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COQUET
Definition of COQUET
noun
A flirtatious female; a coquette.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
COQUET carries 4 further meanings.
intransitive verb
To engage in coquetry; flirt.
intransitive verb
To trifle; dally.
See cocket and coquette.
To attempt, out of vanity, to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; entertain with compliments and amorous flattery; treat with an appearance of amorous tenderness.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine diminutive suffix”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,301)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COQUET · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COQUET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 89 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COQUET starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEOQTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of COQUET. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start COQUET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found COQUET?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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