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CROFTS
Definition of CROFTS
noun
plural of croft
noun
An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.
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Word DNA
CROFTS inherits its ancestry from its root, CROFT.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,223)
How it is built
Same root, CROFT · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, Scots.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CROFTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 63 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CROFTS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CFORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found CROFTS?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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