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CAMPHORWEED
Definition of CAMPHORWEED
noun
Any member of species of the genus Pluchea of flowering plants in the Asteraceae family.
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Where it comes from
From camphor + weed.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CAMPHORWEED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 142, 9 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CAMPHORWEED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDEEHMOPRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start CAMPHOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CAMPHORWEED?
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 142 - and most players walked straight past it.
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