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SCARECROWS
Definition of SCARECROWS
noun
plural 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.
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Word DNA
SCARECROWS inherits its ancestry from its root, SCARECROW.
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.
SCARECROWS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCARECROWS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACCEORRSSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S, C and R appear more than once.
Could you have found SCARECROWS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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