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SPREADING
Definition of SPREADING
verb
present participle and gerund of spread
verb
To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, spread + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SPREAD · 1 relative 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.
SPREADING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPREADING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ADEGINPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SPREAD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found SPREADING?
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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