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SCRAMPING

9 letters

Definition of SCRAMPING

verb

present participle and gerund of scramp

SCRAMP

verb

To catch at; to snatch.

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb

Same root, SCRAMP · 1 relative in the game

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.

SCRAMPING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its one board, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
143
First board
18
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.

First ever to find it

outloafPATRON

on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SCRAMPING
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SCRAMPING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGIMNPRS - 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 SCRAMP

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SCRAMPSCRAMPS

Could you have found SCRAMPING?

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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.

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