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CARN

/kɑːn/4 letters

Definition of CARN

noun

Archaic form of cairn.

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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.

CARN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 112
Its 4 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
68
First board
101
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

magnetschool

on Day 68, 27 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CARN
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start CARN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CARN?

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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.

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