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COWLED
Definition of COWLED
adjective
Wearing a cowl; hooded.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
COWLED carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Wearing or supplied with a cowl; hooded.
adjective
Having the shape of a hood.
Shaped like a cowl; cucullate: as, a cowled leaf.
adjective
Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk.
Where it comes from
From cowl + -ed.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, COWL · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COWLED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 80 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 43, 2 July 2026.
Built from these letters
COWLED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDELOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of COWLED. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found COWLED?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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