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ECARTE
Definition of ECARTE
noun
A card game for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game.
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Where it comes from
From French écarté.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ECARTE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 119, 16 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ECARTE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEERT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ECARTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ECARTE?
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 119 - and most players walked straight past it.
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