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CARNAGE
Definition of CARNAGE
noun
Death and destruction.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French carnage, from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”). By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -age.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARNAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 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 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CARNAGE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACEGNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found CARNAGE?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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