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CARDIO

/ˈkɑː.dɪ.əʊ/6 letters

Definition of CARDIO

adjective

Cardiovascular; pertaining to the health of the circulatory and respiratory systems.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Clipping of cardiovascular.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjective3 syllables

Same root, CARDIO · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

CARDIO in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 30 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
30
Boards found on
23
First board
144
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.

Built from these letters

CARDIO
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CARDIO starts with C and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ACDIOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start CARDIO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CARDIOSCARDIOIDCARDIOIDSCARDIOGRAMCARDIOLOGYCARDIOVERTCARDIOGENICCARDIOGRAMSCARDIOGRAPHCARDIOMOTORCARDIOPATHYCARDIOTONIC

Could you have found CARDIO?

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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.

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