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SHAGGING

8 letters

Definition of SHAGGING

verb

present participle and gerund of shag

SHAG

noun

Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.

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Word DNA

SHAGGING inherits its ancestry from its root, SHAG.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

9%

of traced words share this origin (2,616)

How it is built

verb

Same root, SHAG · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Norwegian, Old Norse, Swedish.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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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.

SHAGGING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 147
Its one board, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
134
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

kcjojo

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

SHAGGING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGGGHINS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start SHAGGI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SHAGGIERSHAGGILYSHAGGIESTSHAGGINESSSHAGGINESSES

Could you have found SHAGGING?

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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.

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