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CRUCIBLE
Definition of CRUCIBLE
noun
A cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin crucibulum (“night-lamp, metallurgic melting-pot”), apparently a derivative of crux (“cross”), perhaps by analogy to thūribulum (“censer”) and suffix -bulum, or from crucio (“to torment”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CRUCIBLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRUCIBLE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BCCEILRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Could you have found CRUCIBLE?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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