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COUGAR
Definition of COUGAR
noun
A wild feline, of species Puma concolor, native to the Americas.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French couguar, from Portuguese cuguardo, a deformation of Brazilian Portuguese suçuarana (earlier çuçuarana), from Old Tupi sûasuarana.
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.
COUGAR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 210 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
COUGAR starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACGORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found COUGAR?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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