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COUCHINGS

/ˈkaʊt͡ʃɪŋz/9 letters

Definition of COUCHINGS

noun

plural of couching

COUCH · via couching

noun

An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.

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Word DNA

COUCHINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, COUCHING.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7.5%

of traced words share this origin (1,958)

Germanic

branch · 22.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound-ing

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

COUCHINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 131
Its one board, across 131 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
131
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

cstag

on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

COUCHINGS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

COUCHINGS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CCGHINOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.

Words that start COUCHI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found COUCHINGS?

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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.

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