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CAMP
Definition of CAMP
noun
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus and champ. The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampōn (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CAMP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
CAMP starts with C and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read ACMP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CAMP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found CAMP?
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