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CRENELATING
Definition of CRENELATING
verb
present participle and gerund of crenelate
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Word DNA
CRENELATING inherits its ancestry from its root, CRENELATE.
Line of descent
- Old French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,433)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CRENELATE · 3 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.
CRENELATING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRENELATING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACEEGILNNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and N appear more than once.
Words that start CRENELA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CRENELATING?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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