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CAVERNOUS
Definition of CAVERNOUS
adjective
Resembling a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere.
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Where it comes from
Late Middle English cavernous, cavernose, borrowing from Old French caverneux or Latin cavernōsus (“full of hollows or cavities”), from caverna (“a hollow, cavity, cave”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to cavern + -ous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CAVERNOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 106 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CAVERNOUS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACENORSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CAVERN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found CAVERNOUS?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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