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SPEWN
Definition of SPEWN
verb
past participle of spew
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Word DNA
SPEWN inherits its ancestry from its root, SPEW.
Line of descent
- Sanskrit
- Persian
- Russian
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- Danish
- Swedish
- Dutch
- Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
12 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
15th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (741)
branch · 1.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SPEW · 8 relatives 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.
SPEWN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPEWN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ENPSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found SPEWN?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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