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CRABBED
Definition of CRABBED
adjective
Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.
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.
CRABBED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
Built from these letters
CRABBED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABBCDER - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start CRABBE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CRABBED?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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