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CARBONADE
Definition of CARBONADE
noun
a stew of meat cooked in beer
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French carbonnade. Doublet of carbonado.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,194)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CARBONADE · 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.
CARBONADE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 97, 25 August 2026.
Built from these letters
CARBONADE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABCDENOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CARBON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CARBONADE?
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 97 - and most players walked straight past it.
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