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CACOLET
Definition of CACOLET
noun
An open chair mounted to one side of a pack animal, balanced by another on the other side.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French cacolet, from Béarnais Occitan cacoulet (“mule chair”).
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 (4,418)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CACOLET · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CACOLET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CACOLET starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACCELOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Could you have found CACOLET?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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