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CARNIEST
Definition of CARNIEST
Wiktionary has no entry for CARNIEST itself. This is its base word, CARNY.
noun
A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for CARNY.
Clipping of carnival + -y (“diminutive, hypocoristic suffix”).
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.
CARNIEST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
Built from these letters
CARNIEST starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACEINRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CARNIE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CARNIEST?
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.
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