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SLAVERING

/ˈslævəɹɪŋ/9 letters

Definition of SLAVERING

verb

present participle and gerund of slaver

SLAVER

verb

To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.

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Other senses

SLAVERING carries 3 further meanings.

  1. adjective

    Drooling; defiling with saliva.

  2. verb

    Present participle of slaver.

  3. adjective

    drooling saliva

Word DNA

SLAVERING inherits its ancestry from its root, SLAVER.

Line of descent

  1. Old Norse
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old Norse

Deepest traced root

16th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.7%

of traced words share this origin (210)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verb3 syllables

Same root, SLAVER · 1 relative in the game

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

SLAVERING in a sentence

“Peter Baker’s idiocy can be easily written off as just more slavering from the toady leftist New York Times.”

An Obama/Roberts match is unlikely, alas. | RedState, 2010

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.

SLAVERING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 56 boards so far. 155 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 56 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
56
Boards found on
22
First board
150
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

mattstan

on Day 22, 11 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SLAVERING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SLAVERING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGILNRSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that mean much the same

Near-synonyms of SLAVERING. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.

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 SLAVER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SLAVERSLAVERSSLAVERYSLAVEREDSLAVERERSLAVERERSSLAVERIESSLAVERINGSSLAVERINGLY

Could you have found SLAVERING?

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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.

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