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SCROG
Definition of SCROG
noun
A stunted or shrivelled bush.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compare scrag, or Scottish Gaelic sgrogag (“anything shriveled”), from sgrag (“to compress, shrivel”).
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.
SCROG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 79, 7 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 79, 7 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
SCROG starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CGORS - 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 SCROG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCROG?
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 79 - and most players walked straight past it.
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