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SPILING

7 letters

Definition of SPILING

verb

present participle and gerund of spile

SPILE

noun

A splinter.

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb

Same root, SPIL · 1 relative in the game

SPIL

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

SPILING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 158
Its 7 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
35
First board
156
Latest board
56
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

drewcoo_nest

on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

SPILING
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

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

Words that start SPILIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SPILINGS

Could you have found SPILING?

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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.

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