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BARCAROLE
Definition of BARCAROLE
noun
A Venetian folk song traditionally sung by gondoliers, often in ⁄8 or ⁄8 time with alternating strong and weak beats imitating a rowing motion.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French barcarolle, from Venetan barcaroƚa (“song sung by a boatman”), from barca (“bark, barge, boat”), ultimately from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship; type of fish”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,135)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BARCAROLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 138, 5 October 2026.
Built from these letters
BARCAROLE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABCELORR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and R appear more than once.
Words that start BARCAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BARCAROLE?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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