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CARD
Definition of CARD
symbol
cardinality
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of carte and chart.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARD in OUTLIER
It has fitted 51 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 64, 23 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CARD starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDR - 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 CARD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CARD?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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