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SPIN
Definition of SPIN
verb
To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-. Cognate with Dutch, German spinnen (“to spin”), Luxembourgish spannen (“to spin”), Yiddish שפּינען (shpinen, “spin”), Danish spinde (“to spin”), Faroese, Icelandic and Swedish spinna (“to spin”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk spinne (“to spin”), Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (spinnan, “to spin”).
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.
SPIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SPIN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read INPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SPIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found SPIN?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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