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SPIEL
Definition of SPIEL
noun
A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Spiel (“game, performance”) or Yiddish שפּיל (shpil), both from Middle High German spil, from Old High German spil, from Proto-West Germanic *spil. Cognate with Old English spilian (“to revel, play”). See speel.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
33rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (61)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SPIEL · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPIEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 64 boards so far. 153 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SPIEL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EILPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SPIEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found SPIEL?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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