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CRABS

/kɹæbz/5 letters

Definition of CRABS

noun

plural of crab

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CRABS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 119
Its 6 boards, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
23
First board
100
Latest board
45
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.

First ever to find it

jellibongus

on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CRABS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CRABS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCRS - 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 CRABS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CRABSTICKCRABSTICKS

Could you have found CRABS?

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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.

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