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SPELDRING
Definition of SPELDRING
noun
A split dried haddock or other small fish.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Scots speld (“to spread out”); compare German spalten (“to split”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPELDRING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 84, 12 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
Built from these letters
SPELDRING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DEGILNPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SPELDR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SPELDRING?
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 84 - and most players walked straight past it.
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