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CHAPELRY

8 letters

Definition of CHAPELRY

noun

The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large parish which has its own district chapel.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Old French chapelerie, corresponding to chapel + -ry.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (837)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ry

Every Old French 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.

CHAPELRY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 147
Its 3 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
58
First board
117
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 58, 17 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.

First ever to find it

drwhodathunkit

on Day 58, 17 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CHAPELRY
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start CHAPEL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CHAPELCHAPELSCHAPELESSCHAPELRIES

Could you have found CHAPELRY?

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 58 - and most players walked straight past it.

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