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CAMERA
Definition of CAMERA
noun
A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber. (device): An ellipsis of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CAMERA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CAMERA starts with C and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACEMR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CAMERA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found CAMERA?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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