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SALLYING
Definition of SALLYING
verb
present participle and gerund of sally
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Word DNA
SALLYING inherits its ancestry from its root, SALLY.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.3%
of traced words share this origin (1,137)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SALLY · 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.
SALLYING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SALLYING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGILLNSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found SALLYING?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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