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CARRACK
Definition of CARRACK
noun
A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.
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Where it comes from
From French caraque (compare Spanish and Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from Latin carraca, from Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic قَرَاقِير (qarāqīr).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,133)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CARRACK · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARRACK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CARRACK starts with C and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AACCKRR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C, A and R appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start CARRAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CARRACK?
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