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CRUISING
Definition of CRUISING
noun
Sailing about without an exact destination, especially for pleasure.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, cruise + -ing.
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.
CRUISING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
CRUISING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CGIINRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start CRUISI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found CRUISING?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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