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COUNTRYSIDE
Definition of COUNTRYSIDE
noun
An area located outside of towns and cities; an area that is not urban or suburban; a rural area.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From country + -side.
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.
COUNTRYSIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 17, 6 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 17, 6 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COUNTRYSIDE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CDEINORSTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COUNTRY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COUNTRYSIDE?
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 17 - and most players walked straight past it.
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