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SEWING
Definition of SEWING
verb
present participle and gerund of sew
SEW
symbol
ISO 639-3 language code for Sewa Bay.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sew + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SEW · 10 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SEWING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SEWING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGINSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SEWING
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found SEWING?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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