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CHURRING
Definition of CHURRING
verb
present participle and gerund of churr
CHIRR · via churr
verb
To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada).
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Word DNA
CHURRING inherits its ancestry from its root, CHURR.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,636)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CHURR · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHURRING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHURRING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CGHINRRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start CHURRI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CHURRING?
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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.
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