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SHEARLINGS

10 letters

Definition of SHEARLINGS

noun

plural of shearling

SHEARLING

noun

A sheep that has been shorn for the first time

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

SHEARLINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 124
Its one board, across 124 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
124
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

nismiley

on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SHEARLINGS
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SHEARLINGS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGHILNRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

ASHLERINGSRINGHALSES

Words that start SHEARL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SHEARLEGSHEARLEGSSHEARLING

Could you have found SHEARLINGS?

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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.

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