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COSTALGIA
Definition of COSTALGIA
noun
pain in the ribs, or the costal muscles
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From costo- + -algia.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COSTALGIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 175, 11 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 175, 11 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COSTALGIA starts with C and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACGILOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start COSTAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COSTALGIA?
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 175 - and most players walked straight past it.
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