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KARO
Definition of KARO
noun
Pittosporum crassifolium, a shrub of New Zealand.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Māori karo.
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.
KARO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 70 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
KARO starts with K and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AKOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 KARO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 50
Could you have found KARO?
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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.
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