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CRUDDING
Definition of CRUDDING
verb
present participle and gerund of crud
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Word DNA
CRUDDING inherits its ancestry from its root, CRUD.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,908)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CRUD · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CRUDDING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRUDDING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CDDGINRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found CRUDDING?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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