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SCRUM
Definition of SCRUM
noun
A tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Either a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCRUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 153 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SCRUM starts with S and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read CMRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SCRUM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found SCRUM?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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