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SPRAWLING

9 letters

Definition of SPRAWLING

verb

present participle and gerund of sprawl

SPRAWL

verb

To sit with the limbs spread out.

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Word DNA

SPRAWLING inherits its ancestry from its root, SPRAWL.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,575)

How it is built

verb

Same root, SPRAWL · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Norwegian, Swedish.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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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.

SPRAWLING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 164
Its 38 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
38
Boards found on
24
First board
163
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

topherookie

on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SPRAWLING
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SPRAWLING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGILNPRSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start SPRAWL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SPRAWLSPRAWLSSPRAWLYSPRAWLEDSPRAWLERSPRAWLERSSPRAWLIERSPRAWLIEST

Could you have found SPRAWLING?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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