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CRAMPONING
Definition of CRAMPONING
verb
present participle and gerund of crampon
noun
An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice.
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Word DNA
CRAMPONING inherits its ancestry from its root, CRAMPON.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,418)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CRAMPON · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CRAMPONING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRAMPONING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGIMNNOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start CRAMPO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CRAMPONING?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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