The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
COWLICK
Definition of COWLICK
noun
An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From cow + lick; as the hair may appear to have been licked into place by a cow.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, COWLICK · 1 relative 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.
COWLICK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COWLICK starts with C and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CCIKLOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Could you have found COWLICK?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER