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CARNY
Definition of 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
Clipping of carnival + -y (“diminutive, hypocoristic suffix”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CARNY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARNY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 46, 5 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 46, 5 July 2026.
Built from these letters
CARNY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACNRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CARNY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 46
Could you have found CARNY?
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 46 - and most players walked straight past it.
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