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SOWLING
About SOWLING
SOWLING is a valid 7-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Word DNA
SOWLING inherits its ancestry from its root, SOWL.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,223)
Same root, SOWL · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, Norwegian, Old Norse, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SOWLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 124 days.
Built from these letters
SOWLING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GILNOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found SOWLING?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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