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CROME

5 letters

Definition of CROME

noun

A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CROME in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 10 boards so far.

Day 1Day 117
Its 10 boards, across 117 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
10
Boards found on
28
First board
116
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.

Built from these letters

CROME
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CROME starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEMOR - 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.

Words that start CROME

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CROME?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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