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CRADLING

8 letters

Definition of CRADLING

verb

present participle and gerund of cradle

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CRADLING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 8 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
8
Boards found on
21
First board
105
Latest board
28
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

platinumteacher

on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

CRADLING
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CRADLING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACDGILNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start CRADLI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CRADLING?

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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.

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