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CARTILAGINOUS
Definition of CARTILAGINOUS
adjective
Comprising soft cartilage rather than bone. Related to or resembling cartilage. Having a skeleton of cartilage.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin cartilāginōsus (“full of cartilage, very gristly”), from cartilāgō (“cartilage, gristle”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”); compare French cartilagineux. Equivalent to cartilage + -ous, with modifications made to its morphology.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,155)
branch · 15.5% 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.
CARTILAGINOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 66 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CARTILAGINOUS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACGIILNORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and I appear more than once.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found CARTILAGINOUS?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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