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COUNTERPANES
Definition of COUNTERPANES
noun
plural of counterpane
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Word DNA
COUNTERPANES inherits its ancestry from its root, COUNTERPANE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.5%
of traced words share this origin (24,890)
branch · 30.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COUNTERPANE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COUNTERPANES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COUNTERPANES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEENNOPRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and E appear more than once.
Words that start COUNTERP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COUNTERPANES?
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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.
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