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SWEEPER

/ˈswipɚ/7 letters

Definition of SWEEPER

noun

One who sweeps; one whose occupation is sweeping.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English swepere, swepare, equivalent to sweep + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German swēpære, swēper (“broom for sweeping up debris”, literally “sweeper”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

SWEEPER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its one board, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
113
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

anothertammyPATRON

on Day 113, 10 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SWEEPER
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SWEEPER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EEEPRSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start SWEEPE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SWEEPERS

Could you have found SWEEPER?

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 113 - and most players walked straight past it.

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