The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SLEWED
Definition of SLEWED
verb
simple past and past participle of slew
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
(drunk): A drunken person may stagger like a ship slewing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SLEW · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SLEWED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SLEWED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEELSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found SLEWED?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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