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CARBONATE

/ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.neɪt/9 letters

Definition of CARBONATE

noun

Any salt or ester of carbonic acid.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From French carbonate, equivalent of carbon + -ate (“suffix used for salts of acids ending in -ic”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

CARBONATE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 7 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
28
First board
97
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

carynv

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

CARBONATE
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CARBONATE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABCENORT - 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 CARBONATE?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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