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SHOVES

/ʃʌvz/6 letters

Definition of SHOVES

noun

plural of shove

SHOVE

verb

To push, especially roughly or with force.

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Word DNA

SHOVES inherits its ancestry from its root, SHOVE.

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

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,223)

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, SHOVE · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish.

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Rarity score
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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.

SHOVES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 158
Its one board, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
146
First board
12
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First found by a player on Day 146, 13 October 2026.

Built from these letters

SHOVES
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found SHOVES?

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 146 - and most players walked straight past it.

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