The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

CARLOT

/ˈkɑː(ɹ)ˌlɒt/6 letters

Definition of CARLOT

noun

car park

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From car + lot.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound

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.

CARLOT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 2 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
138
Latest board
66
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.

First ever to find it

wordless101

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start CARLOT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CARLOT?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER