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CREW
Definition of CREW
noun
A group of people together Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CREW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 43, 2 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 66 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CREW starts with C and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read CERW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CREW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found CREW?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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