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SWEALED

7 letters

Definition of SWEALED

verb

simple past and past participle of sweal

SWEAL

verb

To burn slowly.

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Word DNA

SWEALED inherits its ancestry from its root, SWEAL.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,595)

How it is built

verb

Same root, SWEAL · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic.

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SWEALED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 3 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
101
First board
150
Latest board
48
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 101, 29 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

interalia

on Day 101, 29 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SWEALED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SWEALED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEELSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Could you have found SWEALED?

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 101 - and most players walked straight past it.

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