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KOULAN
Definition of KOULAN
noun
A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Russian кулан (kulan, “Asiatic wild ass”), ultimately from Turkic. Compare Ottoman Turkish قولان (kulan, “wild ass”), Kyrgyz кулан (kulan), Kazakh құлан (qulan), Karakalpak qulan, Nogai кулан (kulan), Bashkir ҡолан (qolan), Tatar колан (qolan), Uyghur قۇلان (qulan), Chagatai قولان (qwlʾn /qulan/) and Mongolian хулан (xulan), a Turkic borrowing.
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.
KOULAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 14, 3 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 14, 3 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
KOULAN starts with K and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AKLNOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start KOULAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 14
Could you have found KOULAN?
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