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CRAWLING
Definition of CRAWLING
verb
present participle and gerund of crawl
verb
To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby.
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Word DNA
CRAWLING inherits its ancestry from its root, CRAWL.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,691)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CRAWL · 7 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CRAWLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 49 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CRAWLING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGILNRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CRAWLI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CRAWLING?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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