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ENCOLURE

/ɑŋkəˈlʊə(ɹ)/8 letters

Definition of ENCOLURE

noun

The neck of a horse.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French encolure.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

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

ENCOLURE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 2 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
62
First board
102
Latest board
40
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 62, 21 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

6c1

on Day 62, 21 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ENCOLURE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ENCOLURE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEELNORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start ENCOLU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ENCOLURE?

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 62 - and most players walked straight past it.

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