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CROODLING
About CROODLING
CROODLING is a valid 9-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CROODLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 58, 17 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
Built from these letters
CROODLING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CDGILNOOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start CROODL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CROODLING?
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 58 - and most players walked straight past it.
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