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SQUIRM
Definition of SQUIRM
verb
To twist one's body with snakelike motions.
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Where it comes from
First recorded 1690's, originally used of eels; cognate with Scots squimmer (“to wriggle, squirm”). Of uncertain origin. Compare dialectal quirm, whirm (“to disappear quickly, vanish suddenly and mysteriously”), Norwegian kverva (“to turn around, take away, remove, shrink”), from Old Norse hverfa (“to turn, vanish”). Alternatively, perhaps imitative or related to worm (in the sense of writhing movement) or swarm.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SQUIRM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SQUIRM starts with S and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read IMQRSU - 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 SQUIRM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found SQUIRM?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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