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SPANGHEW
Definition of SPANGHEW
verb
To strike (a frog or toad) and cause to fly in the air; to inflate (a frog) and bowl it across the surface of a pond.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From a combination of spang (“to spring”) and an onomatopoeic second element.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SPANGHEW · 1 relative 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.
SPANGHEW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPANGHEW starts with S and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read AEGHNPSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SPANGH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SPANGHEW?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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