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CRAMPFISH

9 letters

Definition of CRAMPFISH

noun

A type of electric ray An Atlantic torpedo (Torpedo nobiliana) A common torpedo (Torpedo torpedo)

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Where it comes from

From cramp + fish.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, CRAMPFISH · 1 relative in the game

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.

CRAMPFISH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far.

Day 1Day 151
Its 11 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
38
First board
143
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First found by a player on Day 38, 27 June 2026.

Built from these letters

CRAMPFISH
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start CRAMPF

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CRAMPFISH?

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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.

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