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CHIAROSCURIST
Definition of CHIAROSCURIST
noun
A painter who uses light and shade rather than color to create the illusion of volume.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From chiaroscuro + -ist.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
CHIAROSCURIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 140, 7 October 2026.
Built from these letters
CHIAROSCURIST starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACCHIIORRSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C, I, R and S appear more than once.
Words that start CHIAROSCU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CHIAROSCURIST?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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