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CHARIOT
Definition of CHARIOT
noun
A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English chariot, from Old French chariot, from char (“cart”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”), itself borrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós. Displaced native Old English hrædwæġn (literally “fast wagon”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,647)
How it is built
Same root, CHARIOT · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHARIOT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 56 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHARIOT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACHIORT - 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 CHARIO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found CHARIOT?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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