The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SQUELCHING
Definition of SQUELCHING
verb
present participle and gerund of squelch
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Another sense
SQUELCHING carries a second meaning.
verb
Present participle of squelch.
Word DNA
SQUELCHING inherits its ancestry from its root, SQUELCH.
How it is built
Same root, SQUELCH · 3 relatives in the game
SQUELCHING in a sentence
“They were so effective in squelching the RP message that in New Hampshire, McCain was viewed as the antiwar candidate.”
Libertarians and the Old Right « Antiwar.com Blog, 2008
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SQUELCHING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 128 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SQUELCHING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CEGHILNQSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start SQUELC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found SQUELCHING?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER