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KAROS
Definition of KAROS
Wiktionary has no entry for KAROS itself. This is its base word, KARO.
noun
Pittosporum crassifolium, a shrub of New Zealand.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for KARO.
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.
KAROS 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 55 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
KAROS starts with K and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AKORS - 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 KAROS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 50
Could you have found KAROS?
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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