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CRANEFLY
Definition of CRANEFLY
noun
Any of various large flies of the suborder Tipulomorpha that have slender bodies and very long legs and that resemble giant mosquitoes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From crane (“bird”) + fly, from the resemblance of the insect's long, spindly legs to those of a crane.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CRANEFLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 93, 21 August 2026.
Built from these letters
CRANEFLY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACEFLNRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CRANEF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CRANEFLY?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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