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SWIM
Definition of SWIM
verb
To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English swymmen, from Old English swimman (“to swim, float”) (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną (“to swim”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”). Cognate with North Frisian sweem, swome, swume, swumi, swumme, swääm (“to swim”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian swimme (“to swim”), Dutch zwemmen (“to swim”), German schwimmen (“to swim”), Limburgish schwämme, zwömme (“to swim”), Low German swimmen (“to swim”), Luxembourgish schwammen (“to swim”), Vilamovian švymma, śwyma, śwymma (“to swim”), Yiddish שווימען (shvimen, “to swim”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål svømme (“to swim”), Faroese svimja (“to swim”), Norn suma (“to swim”), Norwegian Nynorsk svemja, svemje, svømma, svømme, symja, symje (“to swim”), Swedish simma (“to swim”).
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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.
SWIM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 123, 20 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SWIM starts with S and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read IMSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SWIM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found SWIM?
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