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COUNTERPLOY

11 letters

About COUNTERPLOY

COUNTERPLOY is a valid 11-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.

No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

COUNTERPLOY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 100
Its one board, across 100 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
72
First board
28
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.

Built from these letters

COUNTERPLOY
11
Letters
4
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

COUNTERPLOY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CELNOOPRTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start COUNTER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

COUNTERCOUNTERSCOUNTEREDCOUNTERACTCOUNTERBIDCOUNTERCRYCOUNTERINGCOUNTERIONCOUNTERMANCOUNTERMENCOUNTERSPYCOUNTERSUE

Could you have found COUNTERPLOY?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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