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CRAYONING

9 letters

Definition of CRAYONING

verb

present participle and gerund of crayon

CRAYON

noun

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

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Word DNA

CRAYONING inherits its ancestry from its root, CRAYON.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (25,664)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-on

Same root, CRAYON · 4 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CRAYONING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 170
Its 2 boards, across 170 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
159
First board
166
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

iguana

on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CRAYONING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CRAYONING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGINNORY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.

Words that start CRAYON

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CRAYONCRAYONSCRAYONEDCRAYONERCRAYONERSCRAYONISTCRAYONISTS

Could you have found CRAYONING?

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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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