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CARTED
Definition of CARTED
verb
simple past and past participle of cart
noun
A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
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Word DNA
CARTED inherits its ancestry from its root, CART.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,608)
How it is built
Same root, CART · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Sanskrit.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
CARTED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDERT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found CARTED?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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