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SPREADINGS
Definition of SPREADINGS
noun
plural of spreading
SPREAD · via spreading
verb
To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
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Word DNA
SPREADINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, SPREADING.
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPREADINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPREADINGS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEGINPRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
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.
Could you have found SPREADINGS?
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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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