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SLAMMING

/ˈslæm.ɪŋ/8 letters

Definition of SLAMMING

verb

present participle and gerund of slam

SLAM

verb

To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.

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Word DNA

SLAMMING inherits its ancestry from its root, SLAM.

Line of descent

  1. Old Norse
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old Norse

Deepest traced root

14th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1%

of traced words share this origin (834)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb2 syllables

Same root, SLAM · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Norwegian, Swedish.

Every Old Norse word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

SLAMMING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 170
Its 2 boards, across 170 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
161
First board
166
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

gnathan

on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SLAMMING
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SLAMMING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGILMMNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

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

LAMMINGSSMALMING

Words that start SLAMMI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SLAMMINGS

Could you have found SLAMMING?

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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.

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