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CHAVEL
Definition of CHAVEL
noun
The jaw, especially of an animal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English chavel (also chawl, jawle, jawe), from Old English ċeafl (“a bill, beak, snout, jaw, jaw-bone, cheek, cheek-bone”), from Proto-West Germanic *kafl, from Proto-Germanic *kaflaz (“jaw”). Doublet of jowl; see there for more.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,940)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHAVEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 156, 23 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 156, 23 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHAVEL starts with C and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACEHLV - 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.
Could you have found CHAVEL?
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 156 - and most players walked straight past it.
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