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SWERVERS

8 letters

Definition of SWERVERS

noun

plural of swerver

SWERVER

noun

One who or that which swerves.

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Word DNA

SWERVERS inherits its ancestry from its root, SWERVE.

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

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (12,153)

How it is built

noun

Same root, SWERVE · 6 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Polish, Swedish.

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

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

SWERVERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its one board, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
172
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

ladybird

on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SWERVERS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start SWERVE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SWERVESWERVEDSWERVERSWERVESSWERVELESS

Could you have found SWERVERS?

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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.

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