The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
COUSINAGE
Definition of COUSINAGE
noun
relationship; kinship
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English cosynage, from Old French cosinage. Compare cosinage, cozenage. By surface analysis, cousin + -age.
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.
COUSINAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COUSINAGE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEGINOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COUSIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COUSINAGE?
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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