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CANDLELIGHT
Definition of CANDLELIGHT
noun
The light emitted by a candle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English candel lyght, candyllyght, candyll-lyȝht, candel liȝt, candle lyȝt, candeliȝt, candel-liht, from Old English candel lēoht (“candlelight”), equivalent to candle + light.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,106)
branch · 22.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CANDLELIGHT · 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.
CANDLELIGHT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CANDLELIGHT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACDEGHILLNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.
Words that start CANDLEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CANDLELIGHT?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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