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SPADGER
Definition of SPADGER
noun
A sparrow.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Originally British dialect (1850s), from spadge (fronted variant of northern dialect spag) + -er. The northern dialect term spag is a derhoticised form of Scots spurg (“sparrow”), from spur (from Old Norse spǫrr (“sparrow”), suffixless cognate of Old English spearwa) + diminutive suffix -ock, with loss of vowel and voicing of -k to -g after r.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPADGER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 72, 31 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPADGER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ADEGPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SPADGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SPADGER?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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