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CRUFT
Definition of CRUFT
noun
Anything that is old or of inferior quality.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built in 1915 as a gift from a donor named Harriet Otis Cruft. Cruft Hall was the radar laboratory of Harvard's physics department during the Second World War, which contained much old and unused technical equipment. Possibly blend of crust + fluff, both of which may form on old abandoned things, or influenced by crud.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CRUFT · 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.
CRUFT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 65 boards so far. 151 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CRUFT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CFRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CRUFT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found CRUFT?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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