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COUR
Definition of COUR
noun
A three-month unit of television broadcasting, corresponding to one of the four seasons.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Back-formation from cours from Japanese クール (kūru), from French cours. Attestable in English among the anime community from at least 2007. Anime News Network's Lexicon Encyclopedia dictates the original cours to be unchanged in singular form, though that has been reanalyzed as a plural form.
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.
COUR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COUR starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found COUR?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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