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CRAFTERS

8 letters

Definition of CRAFTERS

noun

plural of crafter

CRAFTER

noun

Someone who participates in a particular handicraft, either as a hobby or as a small business

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Word DNA

CRAFTERS inherits its ancestry from its root, CRAFT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,861)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, CRAFT · 15 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

CRAFTERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 164
Its 5 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
90
First board
155
Latest board
49
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.

Built from these letters

CRAFTERS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CRAFTERS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEFRRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start CRAFTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CRAFTERS?

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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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