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ABDUCTING

/æb.dəkˈtɪŋ/9 letters

Definition of ABDUCTING

verb

present participle and gerund of abduct

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

ABDUCTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 4 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
28
First board
92
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

dmmjsm

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

ABDUCTING starts with A and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABCDGINTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start ABDUCT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ABDUCTING?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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