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SHINGLED
Definition of SHINGLED
verb
simple past and past participle of shingle
noun
A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
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Word DNA
SHINGLED inherits its ancestry from its root, SHINGLE.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,575)
How it is built
Same root, SHINGLE · 6 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHINGLED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 93 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHINGLED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEGHILNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SHINGL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 13
Could you have found SHINGLED?
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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.
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