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CARDINALS
Definition of CARDINALS
noun
plural of cardinal
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Word DNA
CARDINALS inherits its ancestry from its root, CARDINAL.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CARDINAL · 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.
CARDINALS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CARDINALS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACDILNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CARDIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found CARDINALS?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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