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CARPENTRY
Definition of CARPENTRY
noun
The trade of manipulating materials in order to construct, install, and/or repair buildings or other structures. The trade of cutting and joining wood, timber, or lumber; woodworking.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English carpentrie, from Anglo-Norman carpenterie, from Old Northern French (compare French charpenterie). See carpenter.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,431)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARPENTRY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CARPENTRY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACENPRRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start CARPEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CARPENTRY?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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