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SWEATING
Definition of SWEATING
noun
The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English sweting, swetynge, equivalent to sweat + -ing (gerund ending).
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.
SWEATING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SWEATING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGINSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SWEATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found SWEATING?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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