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SWABBING
Definition of SWABBING
verb
present participle and gerund of swab
noun
A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
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Word DNA
SWABBING inherits its ancestry from its root, SWAB.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,876)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SWAB · 8 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.
SWABBING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SWABBING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABBGINSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found SWABBING?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
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