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CRANING
Definition of CRANING
verb
present participle and gerund of crane
noun
Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
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Word DNA
CRANING inherits its ancestry from its root, CRAN.
How it is built
Same root, CRAN · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Scottish Gaelic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CRANING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRANING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGINNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N 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.
Could you have found CRANING?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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