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CARNIFIES

9 letters

Definition of CARNIFIES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of carnify

CARNIFY

verb

To form flesh; to become like flesh.

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Word DNA

CARNIFIES inherits its ancestry from its root, CARNIFY.

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 (23,914)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound

Same root, CARNIFY · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names French.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

CARNIFIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 156
Its 5 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
69
First board
155
Latest board
57
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

vocabulainey19

on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CARNIFIES
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CARNIFIES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEFIINRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start CARNIF

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CARNIFIES?

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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.

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