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ABJURING

/əbˈdʒʊɹɪŋ/8 letters

Definition of ABJURING

verb

present participle and gerund of abjure

ABJURE

verb

To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.

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Word DNA

ABJURING inherits its ancestry from its root, ABJURE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Old French
  4. Middle French
  5. Anglo-Norman
  6. Middle English
  7. English

6 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

8.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,622)

How it is built

verb3 syllablescompoundab-

Same root, ABJURE · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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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.

ABJURING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 62 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 18 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
18
Boards found on
70
First board
142
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 70, 29 July 2026.

Built from these letters

ABJURING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ABJURING starts with A and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABGIJNRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.

Could you have found ABJURING?

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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.

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