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CARNIFY
Definition of CARNIFY
verb
To form flesh; to become like flesh.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin carnificare, from Latin carnis (“flesh”) + facere (“to make”). Compare French carnifier.
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.
CARNIFY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 93, 21 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CARNIFY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACFINRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CARNIF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CARNIFY?
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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