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HANDCRAFTED
Definition of HANDCRAFTED
adjective
Made by hand or using the hands, as opposed to by mass production or using machinery.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hand + crafted.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HANDCRAFT · 2 relatives 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.
HANDCRAFTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HANDCRAFTED starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AACDDEFHNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and D appear more than once.
Words that start HANDCRA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HANDCRAFTED?
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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