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CREASING

/ˈkɹiːsɪŋ/8 letters

Definition of CREASING

verb

present participle and gerund of crease

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

CREASING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 3 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
52
First board
93
Latest board
34
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 52, 11 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

katotato

on Day 52, 11 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CREASING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CREASING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACEGINRS - 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.

GRECIANSSEARCING

Words that start CREASI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CREASIERCREASIEST

Could you have found CREASING?

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 52 - and most players walked straight past it.

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