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COWHOUSE

8 letters

Definition of COWHOUSE

noun

A house (barn or shed) for keeping cows.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English cowhous, cowehous, equivalent to cow + house.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

COWHOUSE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 3 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
49
First board
72
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 49, 8 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 49 days.

First ever to find it

9herons

on Day 49, 8 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

COWHOUSE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

COWHOUSE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEHOOSUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start COWHOU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

COWHOUSES

Could you have found COWHOUSE?

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 49 - and most players walked straight past it.

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