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CARACOLE

/ˈkæɹəkəʊl/8 letters

Definition of CARACOLE

noun

A half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French caracole (noun, literally “snail's shell”), caracoler (verb).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7%

of traced words share this origin (1,841)

Romance

branch · 15.2% of traced words

How it is built

noun3 syllables

Every French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

CARACOLE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 131
Its one board, across 131 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
131
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

alexnovo

on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

CARACOLE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACCELOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and A appear more than once.

Words that start CARACO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CARACOLCARACOLSCARACOLEDCARACOLERCARACOLESCARACOLERSCARACOLINGCARACOLLEDCARACOLLING

Could you have found CARACOLE?

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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