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CRUSHINGLY

10 letters

Definition of CRUSHINGLY

adverb

So as to defeat overwhelmingly.

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Other senses

CRUSHINGLY carries 2 further meanings.

  1. adverb

    So as to belittle; dishearteningly.

  2. adverb

    in a crushing manner

Where it comes from

From crushing + -ly.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adverbcompound-ly

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

CRUSHINGLY in a sentence

“But these gains are only latent, because he thought the workers would remain crushingly poor and wouldn´t benefit from the increased productivity.”

Matthew Yglesias » A Reform Cabinet for Nigeria, 2010

Rarity score
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Tier
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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.

CRUSHINGLY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 78 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 28 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
28
Boards found on
34
First board
162
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.

Built from these letters

CRUSHINGLY
10
Letters
2
Vowels
8
Consonants
10
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CRUSHINGLY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CGHILNRSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start CRUSHI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CRUSHINGLY?

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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.

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