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SCRAWLED

8 letters

Definition of SCRAWLED

adjective

Having been written in a rapid and sloppy manner.

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Word DNA

SCRAWLED inherits its ancestry from its root, SCRAWL.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,223)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

adjective

Same root, SCRAWL · 3 relatives in the game

Every Middle 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.

SCRAWLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 147
Its 20 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards found on
47
First board
139
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

intrepidwar

on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SCRAWLED
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start SCRAWL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SCRAWLSCRAWLSSCRAWLYSCRAWLERSCRAWLERSSCRAWLIERSCRAWLINGSCRAWLIESTSCRAWLINGSSCRAWLINGLY

Could you have found SCRAWLED?

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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.

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