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COUPLER
Definition of COUPLER
noun
Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From couple + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, COUPLE · 8 relatives 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.
COUPLER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 88, 16 August 2026.
Built from these letters
COUPLER starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CELOPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COUPLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COUPLER?
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 71 - and most players walked straight past it.
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