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SCRANCH
Definition of SCRANCH
verb
To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to crunch.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compare Dutch schransen (“to eat greedily”), German schranzen. Compare crunch, scrunch.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (914)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SCRANCH · 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.
SCRANCH 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 11 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
SCRANCH starts with S and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read ACCHNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start SCRANC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCRANCH?
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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