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CRURA

5 letters

Definition of CRURA

noun

plural of crus

CRUS

noun

The shin (tibia and fibula)

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Word DNA

CRURA inherits its ancestry from its root, CRUS.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (24,176)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, CRUS · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CRURA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its 2 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
138
First board
139
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

flaggy

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CRURA
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CRURA starts with C and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACRRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Words that start CRURA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CRURA?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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