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CRUZADOES
Definition of CRUZADOES
noun
plural of cruzado
CRUZADO
noun
The monetary unit of Brazil from 1986 to 1990.
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Word DNA
CRUZADOES inherits its ancestry from its root, CRUZADO.
Line of descent
- Portuguese
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
27th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (257)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CRUZADO · 1 relative 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.
CRUZADOES 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 12 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
CRUZADOES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEORSUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start CRUZAD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CRUZADOES?
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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