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WHIRLINGS

9 letters

Definition of WHIRLINGS

noun

plural of whirling

WHIRLING

adjective

Revolving, rotating, turning rapidly.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

WHIRLINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 75 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 147
Its 20 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards found on
32
First board
127
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 127, 24 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.

First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.

Built from these letters

WHIRLINGS
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WHIRLINGS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read GHIILNRSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start WHIRLI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WHIRLIERWHIRLIESWHIRLINGWHIRLIESTWHIRLIGIGWHIRLIGIGSWHIRLINGLY

Could you have found WHIRLINGS?

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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.

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