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CRANKLE
Definition of CRANKLE
noun
A bend, twist or crinkle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From crank + -le. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1596. According to the Poly-Olbion project, "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’."
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.
CRANKLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 57, 16 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 57, 16 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRANKLE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEKLNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CRANKL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 57
Could you have found CRANKLE?
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 57 - and most players walked straight past it.
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