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CARTOONY
About CARTOONY
CARTOONY is a valid 8-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARTOONY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CARTOONY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACNOORTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O 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 CARTOO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found CARTOONY?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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