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STRAYLING
Definition of STRAYLING
noun
A little waif or stray; a driftling.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From stray + -ling.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
STRAYLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 130, 27 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 130, 27 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STRAYLING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGILNRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found STRAYLING?
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 130 - and most players walked straight past it.
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