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CARROT
Definition of CARROT
noun
A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
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Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native Middle English more, from Old English more, moru (“edible root, parsnip, carrot”), related to German Möhre (“carrot”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,854)
branch · 12.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CARROT · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names German, Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARROT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CARROT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACORRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CARROT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CARROT?
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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.
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