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CHARNEL
Definition of CHARNEL
noun
A chapel attached to a mortuary.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English charnel, from Old French charnel, carnel, from Late Latin carnāle (“graveyard”), from Latin carnālis, or possibly an alteration of Anglo-Norman charner, from Medieval Latin carnārium (“charnel”). Displaced Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
26th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (259)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CHARNEL · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHARNEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 56 boards so far. 141 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHARNEL starts with C and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACEHLNR - 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 CHARNE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found CHARNEL?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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