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CARNELIANS

10 letters

Definition of CARNELIANS

noun

plural of carnelian

CARNELIAN

noun

A hard, reddish brown chalcedony used in jewelry.

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Word DNA

CARNELIANS inherits its ancestry from its root, CARNELIAN.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,318)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, CARNELIAN · 1 relative 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.

CARNELIANS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its one board, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
145
First board
29
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.

First ever to find it

smallhillPATRON

on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CARNELIANS
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CARNELIANS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACEILNNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and N appear more than once.

Words that start CARNEL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CARNELIANS?

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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.

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