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CAVALRY
Definition of CAVALRY
noun
The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French cavalerie, in turn from Italian cavalleria. Recorded in English from the 1540s. Doublet of chivalry.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Italian
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2%
of traced words share this origin (596)
branch · 15.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CAVALRY · 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.
CAVALRY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CAVALRY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACLRVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
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 CAVALR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found CAVALRY?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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