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CORNUS
Definition of CORNUS
noun
Any of the genus Cornus of dogwoods.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin cornus.
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.
CORNUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 62, 21 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 62, 21 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CORNUS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CNORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CORNUS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CORNUS?
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 62 - and most players walked straight past it.
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