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CRAYON
Definition of CRAYON
noun
A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (diminutive suffix), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), perhaps from crētus.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,117)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CRAYON · 4 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.
CRAYON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 14, 3 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRAYON starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACNORY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CRAYON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found CRAYON?
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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