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CRAVEN
Definition of CRAVEN
adjective
Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter (ultimately from Latin crepare), or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”).
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.
CRAVEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 138 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 2, 23 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CRAVEN starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACENRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CRAVEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found CRAVEN?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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