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CRIMEN
Definition of CRIMEN
noun
An impediment to Catholic marriage due to a conspiracy to murder or a death of a previous spouse.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; adultery; crime”). Doublet of crime.
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.
CRIMEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRIMEN starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CEIMNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found CRIMEN?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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