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SQUAILING
Definition of SQUAILING
verb
present participle and gerund of squail
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SQUAIL · 3 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.
SQUAILING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 101, 29 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 101, 29 August 2026.
Built from these letters
SQUAILING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGIILNQSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
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 SQUAIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SQUAILING?
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 101 - and most players walked straight past it.
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