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SKELLYING
Definition of SKELLYING
verb
present participle and gerund of skelly
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Word DNA
SKELLYING inherits its ancestry from its root, SKELLY.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,281)
How it is built
Same root, SKELLY · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Scots, Swedish.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SKELLYING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
Built from these letters
SKELLYING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGIKLLNSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found SKELLYING?
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 173 - and most players walked straight past it.
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