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SWELTER
Definition of SWELTER
verb
To suffer terribly from intense heat.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English swelteren, frequentative form of Middle English swelten (“to die; faint”), from Old English sweltan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną (“to die”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to smolder; burn”), equivalent to swelt + -er (frequentative suffix).
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.
SWELTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 76 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 13, 2 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SWELTER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EELRSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SWELTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 13
Could you have found SWELTER?
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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.
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