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SCARECROW
Definition of SCARECROW
noun
An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The noun is derived from scare (“to frighten, startle, terrify”) + crow (“bird of the genus Corvus”). The word displaced other terms such as bogle (now dialectal, dated), sewel or shewel, and shoy-hoy (perhaps imitative of the cry of crows). The verb is derived from the noun.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SCARECROW · 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.
SCARECROW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCARECROW starts with S and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read ACCEORRSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and R appear more than once.
Could you have found SCARECROW?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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