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CRANKNESS
Definition of CRANKNESS
noun
Liability to capsize (said of a ship or other vessel).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From crank + -ness.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CRANK · 14 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.
CRANKNESS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRANKNESS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEKNNRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and S appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start CRANKN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CRANKNESS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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