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CURIOUS

/ˈkjʊə.ɹi.əs/7 letters

Definition of CURIOUS

adjective

Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; nosy, prying.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English curious, from Old French curius, from Latin cūriōsus. The English word is cognate with Italian curioso, Occitan curios, Portuguese curioso, and Spanish curioso. Displaced native Old English firwitġeorn.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CURIOUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 7 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
46
First board
105
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 46, 5 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 46, 5 July 2026.

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Built from these letters

CURIOUS
7
Letters
4
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

CURIOUS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CIORSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.

Words that start CURIOU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CURIOUSERCURIOUSLYCURIOUSESTCURIOUSNESSCURIOUSNESSES

Could you have found CURIOUS?

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 46 - and most players walked straight past it.

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