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CARYATIDAL
Definition of CARYATIDAL
adjective
Of or relating to a caryatid.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From caryatid + -al.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CARYATID · 5 relatives 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.
CARYATIDAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CARYATIDAL starts with C and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAACDILRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CARYAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CARYATIDAL?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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