The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
COUPON
Definition of COUPON
noun
A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc.
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Where it comes from
From French coupon, from couper (“to cut”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,168)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COUPON · 3 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.
COUPON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 54 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 49, 8 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First found by a player on Day 49, 8 July 2026.
Built from these letters
COUPON starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CNOOPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start COUPON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 49
Could you have found COUPON?
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 49 - and most players walked straight past it.
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