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CRYPTIDS
About CRYPTIDS
CRYPTIDS is a valid 8-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Another sense
CRYPTIDS carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of cryptid.
Word DNA
CRYPTIDS inherits its ancestry from its root, CRYPTID.
How it is built
Same root, CRYPTID · 1 relative in the game
CRYPTIDS in a sentence
“Regarding the first point, the idea that certain cryptids might be the highly modified descendants of known fossil forms is, while of course not impossible, highly improbable and strikingly like special pleading.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CRYPTIDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 304 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRYPTIDS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDIPRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CRYPTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found CRYPTIDS?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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