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COVE
Definition of COVE
noun
A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English cove, from Old English cofa (“chamber; den”), from Proto-West Germanic *kobō, from Proto-Germanic *kubô. Cognate with Dutch koof (“cove”), German Low German Koov (“small room”), German Koben (“nook, shed”), Icelandic kofi (“hut, shack”). This word has probably survived as long as it has due to its coincidental phonetic resemblance to the unrelated word English cave. Also unrelated to Spanish cueva, which itself is a cognate of cave.
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.
COVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
COVE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEOV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COVE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found COVE?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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