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COXA
Definition of COXA
noun
The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).
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Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin coxa, from Proto-Italic *koksā, from Proto-Indo-European *kóḱseh₂, from *koḱs- (“joint, limb”) + *-eh₂. Doublet of cuisse.
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.
COXA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COXA starts with C and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACOX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start COXA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COXA?
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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.
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