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CARANGOID

9 letters

Definition of CARANGOID

adjective

Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective

Same root, CARANGOID · 1 relative in the game

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.

CARANGOID in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 176
Its one board, across 176 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
173
First board
3
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

atking

on Day 173, 9 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CARANGOID
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start CARANG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CARANGOID?

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 173 - and most players walked straight past it.

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