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SHEADING
Definition of SHEADING
noun
Any of the six administrative districts into which the Isle of Man is divided.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unclear. Perhaps from the Norse word skeid, "ship assembly", with each sheading providing men for a warship. Perhaps from a Celtic word meaning "sixth part". Perhaps from the Middle English word, scheding, for an administrative division.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (5,109)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SHEAD · 1 relative 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.
SHEADING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHEADING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ADEGHINS - 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 SHEADI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SHEADING?
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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.
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