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STROUDING
Definition of STROUDING
noun
Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth formerly used in trade between the Europeans and the Native Americans.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From stroud + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
STROUDING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 70, 29 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STROUDING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DGINORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start STROUD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found STROUDING?
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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.
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