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CREVICE
Definition of CREVICE
noun
A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,695)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CREVICE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CREVICE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CCEEIRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and E appear more than once.
Words that start CREVIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CREVICE?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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