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CAMELEON

8 letters

Definition of CAMELEON

noun

Obsolete form of chameleon.

CHAMELEON

noun

A small to mid-size reptile, of the family Chamaeleonidae, and one of the best known lizard families able to change color and project its long tongue.

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Word DNA

CAMELEON inherits its ancestry from its root, CHAMELEON.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Latin
  3. Old French
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.2%

of traced words share this origin (9,477)

Hellenic

branch · 12.2% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, CHAMELEON · 6 relatives in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CAMELEON in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far.

Day 1Day 155
Its 9 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
24
First board
142
Latest board
36
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Also on

Built from these letters

CAMELEON
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CAMELEON starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACEELMNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start CAMELE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CAMELEON?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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