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SWING
Definition of SWING
verb
To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English swyngen, from Old English swingan, from Proto-West Germanic *swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (compare Low German swingen, German schwingen, Dutch zwingen, Swedish svinga), from Proto-Indo-European *swenk-, *sweng- (compare Scottish Gaelic seang (“thin”)). Related to swink.
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.
SWING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SWING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GINSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 SWING
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found SWING?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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