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COWED

/kaʊd/5 letters

Definition of COWED

adjective

Frightened into submission.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective1 syllable

Same root, COWE · 2 relatives in the game

COWECOWING

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

COWED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 99 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 40 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
40
Boards found on
24
First board
154
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

sshannonm816

on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

COWED
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

COWED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start COWED

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found COWED?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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