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CRYPTO
Definition of CRYPTO
noun
Clipping of cryptocurrency
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
All senses trace back to clippings of words derived from the prefix crypto-, developed at various times in the 20th and 21st centuries. During the 2010s and 2020s, the "cryptocurrency" sense has become the dominant sense. The "cryptography" sense predates that one; thus, a computer or math geek in earlier decades would be referring to cryptography when using this word. The "secret supporter or follower" sense is clipped from such terms as cryptofascist and cryptocommunist. The several informal senses in medicine referring to several microbe genera or the diseases they cause have existed since circa the mid-20th century.
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.
CRYPTO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRYPTO starts with C and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read COPRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CRYPTO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found CRYPTO?
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