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COURTESY
Definition of COURTESY
noun
Polite behavior.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English curteisie, curtesie, from Anglo-Norman curtesie, from Old French curteisie, cortoisie. Equivalent to courteous + -y (abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, court + -esy.
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.
COURTESY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
COURTESY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEORSTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COURTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found COURTESY?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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