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CROFTING

8 letters

Definition of CROFTING

noun

A form of land tenure and small-scale food production, unique to the Highlands and islands of Scotland, in which individual crofts are established on the better land while a large area of poor-quality hill ground is shared by all the crofters of the township for grazing.

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Where it comes from

From croft + -ing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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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.

CROFTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 5 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
31
First board
108
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

jolly

on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CROFTING
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CROFTING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CFGINORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start CROFTI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.

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