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CROTALARIA
Definition of CROTALARIA
noun
Any of the genus Crotalaria of herbaceous plants and woody shrubs.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from translingual Crotalaria.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CROTALARIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CROTALARIA starts with C and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAACILORRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and A appear more than once.
Words that start CROTAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CROTALARIA?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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