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CHARADE

/ʃəˈɹɑːd/7 letters

Definition of CHARADE

noun

A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From French charade, charrade (“prattle, idle conversation; a kind of riddle”), probably from Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), from charrar (“to chat; to chatter”) + -ada. As a round of the game, originally a clipping of acting charade but now usually understood and formed as a back-formation from charades.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

CHARADE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 112
Its 6 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
38
First board
102
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

weatherboy

on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CHARADE
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CHARADE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACDEHR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start CHARAD

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CHARADE?

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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.

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