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CARB

/kɑːb/4 letters

Definition of CARB

noun

Clipping of carbohydrate

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Clipping.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

CARB in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 122
Its 2 boards, across 122 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
21
First board
30
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 30, 19 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 92 days.

First ever to find it

ghelfer

on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CARB
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CARB starts with C and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read ABCR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start CARB

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CARB?

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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.

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