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CARTOPHILES
Definition of CARTOPHILES
noun
plural of cartophile
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Word DNA
CARTOPHILES inherits its ancestry from its root, CARTOPHILE.
How it is built
Same root, CARTOPHILE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARTOPHILES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 128, 25 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First found by a player on Day 87, 15 August 2026.
Built from these letters
CARTOPHILES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHILOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CARTOPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CARTOPHILES?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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