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SWEATER

/ˈswɛtə/7 letters

Definition of SWEATER

noun

A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English swētere, equivalent to sweat + -er.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SWEATER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 21 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
12
First board
107
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start SWEATE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SWEATEDSWEATERSSWEATERDRESSSWEATERDRESSES

Could you have found SWEATER?

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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.

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