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CARABAOS

8 letters

Definition of CARABAOS

noun

plural of carabao

CARABAO

noun

Any member of the domesticated subspecies Bubalus bubalis carabanesis of water buffalo.

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Word DNA

CARABAOS inherits its ancestry from its root, CARABAO.

Line of descent

  1. Malay
  2. Spanish
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Malay

Deepest traced root

29th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.3%

of traced words share this origin (240)

Austronesian

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, CARABAO · 1 relative in the game

Every Malay word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

CARABAOS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its one board, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
148
First board
29
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.

First ever to find it

ggl0904

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CARABAOS
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CARABAOS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAABCORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start CARABA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CARABAOS?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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