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COURB
Definition of COURB
verb
To bend; to bow.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English courben, from Middle French courber, from Latin curvō. Doublet of curb.
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.
COURB in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
Built from these letters
COURB starts with C and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read BCORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COURB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COURB?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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