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SPUNGES
Definition of SPUNGES
noun
plural of spunge
SPONGE · via spunge
noun
Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
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Word DNA
SPUNGES inherits its ancestry from its root, SPONGE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.3%
of traced words share this origin (10,555)
branch · 12.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SPONGE · 11 relatives 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.
SPUNGES 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 12 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
SPUNGES starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGNPSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Could you have found SPUNGES?
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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