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SONGCRAFT

/ˈsɒŋkɹɑːft/9 letters

Definition of SONGCRAFT

noun

The practice or skill of crafting or composing songs.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From song + -craft, sometimes after Old English sangcræft (“singing, poetry; music”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

4.2%

of traced words share this origin (1,197)

Germanic

branch · 22.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound-craft

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SONGCRAFT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 143
Its 3 boards, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
129
First board
142
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 129, 26 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

viburnifolia

on Day 142, 9 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SONGCRAFT
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SONGCRAFT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACFGNORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start SONGCR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SONGCRAFTS

Could you have found SONGCRAFT?

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 129 - and most players walked straight past it.

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