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SWEALING

8 letters

Definition of SWEALING

verb

present participle and gerund of sweal

SWEAL

verb

To burn slowly.

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Word DNA

SWEALING 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

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,166)

How it is built

verb

Same root, SWEAL · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

SWEALING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 8 boards so far.

Day 1Day 155
Its 8 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
8
Boards found on
63
First board
151
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 63, 22 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

caquisz

on Day 63, 22 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

SWEALING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SWEALING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGILNSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start SWEALI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SWEALINGS

Could you have found SWEALING?

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 63 - and most players walked straight past it.

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