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DEVILINGS

9 letters

Definition of DEVILINGS

noun

plural of deviling

DEVIL · via deviling

proper noun

The chief devil; Satan.

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Word DNA

DEVILINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, DEVILING.

How it is built

noun

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.

DEVILINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 156
Its 6 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
69
First board
135
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

yesokayfine

on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DEVILINGS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DEVILINGS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEGIILNSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start DEVILI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DEVILINGDEVILISHDEVILISMDEVILITYDEVILISMSDEVILISHLYDEVILISHNESSDEVILISHNESSES

Could you have found DEVILINGS?

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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.

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