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SCHLEP
Definition of SCHLEP
verb
To carry, drag, or lug.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Yiddish שלעפּן (shlepn, “to drag”), from Middle High German slepen, from Middle Low German slêpen, from or related to Old High German sleifen (“to drag”) and slifan (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan. Compare German schleppen (“to haul”) and its inherited doublet schleifen (“to drag”), Dutch slepen (“to drag”), Danish slæbe (“to haul”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle Low German
- Yiddish
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
29th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (79)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SCHLEP · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCHLEP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 68 boards so far. 225 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCHLEP starts with S and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read CEHLPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SCHLEP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found SCHLEP?
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