The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
CARTRIDGE
Definition of CARTRIDGE
noun
The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,450)
branch · 30.7% 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.
CARTRIDGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CARTRIDGE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACDEGIRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start CARTRI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CARTRIDGE?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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