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COUPLERS
Definition of COUPLERS
noun
plural of coupler
noun
Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
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Word DNA
COUPLERS inherits its ancestry from its root, COUPLER.
How it is built
Same root, COUPLER · 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.
COUPLERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 68, 27 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COUPLERS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CELOPRSU - 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 COUPLERS?
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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.
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