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COWSKIN
Definition of COWSKIN
noun
Leather made from the hide of a cow or similar animal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From cow + skin.
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.
COWSKIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 84, 12 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 84, 12 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COWSKIN starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CIKNOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COWSKI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COWSKIN?
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 84 - and most players walked straight past it.
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