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SCREWUP
Definition of SCREWUP
noun
A substantial mistake, usually causing problems for more people than just the person or group who made it.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Deverbal from screw up.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCREWUP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 69 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCREWUP starts with S and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read CEPRSUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SCREWU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCREWUP?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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