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SLEAVE
Definition of SLEAVE
verb
To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From Chambers 1908; needs cleanup.”) Compare Danish slöife, a loose knot, Swedish slejf (“a knot of ribbon”), German Schleife (“a loop”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SLEAVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 62, 21 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 40 days.
First found by a player on Day 51, 10 July 2026.
Built from these letters
SLEAVE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEELSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found SLEAVE?
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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.
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