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COUNTERWORD
Definition of COUNTERWORD
noun
A word (for example so) that is frequently used in a reflex-like manner in an answer and that has thereby quickly taken on a new, much less specific or much looser meaning or is even almost meaningless and performs a completely new function.
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Where it comes from
From counter- + word.
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.
COUNTERWORD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COUNTERWORD starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDENOORRTUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and R appear more than once.
Words that start COUNTER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COUNTERWORD?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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