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SWIVELLED

9 letters

Definition of SWIVELLED

verb

simple past and past participle of swivel

SWIVEL

noun

A piece, such as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.

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Word DNA

SWIVELLED inherits its ancestry from its root, SWIVEL.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,077)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-el

Same root, SWIVEL · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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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.

SWIVELLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its one board, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
167
First board
4
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 167, 3 November 2026.

Built from these letters

SWIVELLED
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SWIVELLED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEILLSVW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and L appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start SWIVEL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SWIVELSWIVELSSWIVELEDSWIVELINGSWIVELLINGSWIVELBLOCK

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