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UNCOS
Definition of UNCOS
Wiktionary has no entry for UNCOS itself. This is its base word, UNCO.
adjective
Strange, weird.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for UNCO.
From Scots unco, shortening of uncouth.
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.
UNCOS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 84, 12 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UNCOS starts with U and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CNOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found UNCOS?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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