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CAREFUL

/ˈkɛɹfəl/7 letters

Definition of CAREFUL

adjective

Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English careful, from Old English carful; equivalent to care + -ful.

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.

CAREFUL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 112
Its 16 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
7
First board
108
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

CAREFUL
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start CAREFU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CAREFULLYCAREFULLERCAREFULLESTCAREFULNESSCAREFULNESSES

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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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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