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SPARGING

8 letters

Definition of SPARGING

verb

present participle and gerund of sparge

SPARGE

verb

To sprinkle or spray.

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Word DNA

SPARGING inherits its ancestry from its root, SPARGE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Middle French
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

9%

of traced words share this origin (2,608)

How it is built

verb

Same root, SPARGE · 2 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SPARGING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 145
Its one board, across 145 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
134
First board
11
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

bosh

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SPARGING
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SPARGING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGGINPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found SPARGING?

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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.

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