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SWORDPLAY
Definition of SWORDPLAY
noun
fighting with a sword
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Old English sweordplega. By surface analysis, sword + play.
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.
SWORDPLAY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SWORDPLAY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADLOPRSWY - 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 SWORDP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SWORDPLAY?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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