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CARIAMAS

8 letters

Definition of CARIAMAS

noun

plural of cariama

SERIEMA · via cariama

noun

Either of two species of bird in the family Cariamidae within the order Cariamiformes, endemic to South America.

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Word DNA

CARIAMAS inherits its ancestry from its root, SERIEMA.

Line of descent

  1. Portuguese
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Portuguese

Deepest traced root

28th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.3%

of traced words share this origin (283)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, SERIEMA · 2 relatives in the game

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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.

CARIAMAS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 176
Its one board, across 176 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
127
First board
49
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 127, 24 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 49 days.

Built from these letters

CARIAMAS
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CARIAMAS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAACIMRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start CARIAM

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CARIAMAS?

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 127 - and most players walked straight past it.

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