Copout
6 lettersnounmoderateUpdated June 2026
Definition
An avoidance of a difficult situation or an evasion of one's responsibilities.
“Blaming the weather was a total copout and everyone in the room knew it.”
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Contains two Os and ends in -OUT, once you have CO- and -OUT the P in the middle is straightforward
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Six common tiles with no high scorers, a reliable rack-clearing word if you hold C, O, P, O, U, T
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