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CALAMITY
Definition of CALAMITY
noun
An event resulting in great loss.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French calamité, from Latin calamitās (“loss, damage; disaster”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,643)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CALAMITY · 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.
CALAMITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 48 boards so far. 249 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 12, 1 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CALAMITY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACILMTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CALAMI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found CALAMITY?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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