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CARBURETTING

12 letters

Definition of CARBURETTING

verb

present participle and gerund of carburet

CARBURET

noun

A carbide.

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Word DNA

CARBURETTING inherits its ancestry from its root, CARBURET.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.2%

of traced words share this origin (2,034)

Romance

branch · 15.5% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-uret

Same root, CARBURET · 1 relative in the game

CARBURET

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

CARBURETTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 140
Its one board, across 140 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

zoyacat

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CARBURETTING
12
Letters
4
Vowels
8
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CARBURETTING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABCEGINRRTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and T appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start CARBURET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CARBURETCARBURETSCARBURETEDCARBURETERCARBURETORCARBURETERSCARBURETINGCARBURETIONCARBURETORSCARBURETTEDCARBURETTERCARBURETTOR

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