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CARFULS
Definition of CARFULS
noun
plural of carful
noun
As much as a car will hold. (Usually with reference to an automobile; sometimes with reference to a railroad car, especially in 19th-century texts.)
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Word DNA
CARFULS inherits its ancestry from its root, CARFUL.
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.1%
of traced words share this origin (4,784)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CARFUL · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARFULS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 104, 1 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
CARFULS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACFLRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found CARFULS?
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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.
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