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COTTISE
Definition of COTTISE
noun
A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend: a thin line borne around another charge.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French cotice, costice, from côte + -ice, from Latin costa (“rib”).
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.
COTTISE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COTTISE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEIOSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start COTTIS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COTTISE?
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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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