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SCUMBLE
Definition of SCUMBLE
noun
An opaque kind of glaze (layer of paint).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
SCUMBLE carries 4 further meanings.
transitive verb
To soften the colors or outlines of (a painting or drawing) by covering with a film of opaque or semiopaque color or by rubbing.
transitive verb
To blur the outlines of.
“a writer who scumbled the line that divides history and fiction.”
noun
The effect produced by or as if by scumbling.
noun
Material used for scumbling.
Where it comes from
Uncertain; perhaps from scum with frequentative -le.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SCUMBLE · 3 relatives in the game
SCUMBLE in a sentence
“Where conditions were right (neither too much nor too little sun, for instance up near the house itself) a scumble of colors occurred in Spring, attracting swarms of bees and butterflies — among these: Silver-spotted Skippers (Epargyreus clarus clarus) and American Coppers (Lycaena phlaes americana) — in abundance.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCUMBLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 71 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCUMBLE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BCELMSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SCUMBL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found SCUMBLE?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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