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CWTCHING

8 letters

Definition of CWTCHING

verb

present participle and gerund of cwtch

CWTCH

noun

A cubbyhole or similar hiding place.

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Word DNA

CWTCHING inherits its ancestry from its root, CWTCH.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. Welsh
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,231)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, CWTCH · 3 relatives in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

CWTCHING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 147
Its 2 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
131
First board
137
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

receptor

on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CWTCHING
8
Letters
1
Vowels
7
Consonants
7
Different letters
5
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CWTCHING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CCGHINTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.

Could you have found CWTCHING?

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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.

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