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CHAMELOTS

9 letters

Definition of CHAMELOTS

noun

plural of chamelot

CAMLET · via chamelot

noun

A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.

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Word DNA

CHAMELOTS inherits its ancestry from its root, CAMLET.

Line of descent

  1. Arabic
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Arabic

Deepest traced root

11th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.4%

of traced words share this origin (1,122)

Semitic

branch · 2.1% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ot

Same root, CAMLET · 7 relatives in the game

Every Arabic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CHAMELOTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its 2 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
150
Latest board
78
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

hydrangea55

on Day 150, 17 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CHAMELOTS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CHAMELOTS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHLMOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

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 CHAMEL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CHAMELOTS?

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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