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ABORTING
Definition of ABORTING
verb
present participle and gerund of abort
noun
An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
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Word DNA
ABORTING inherits its ancestry from its root, ABORT.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,981)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ABORT · 6 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ABORTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
ABORTING starts with A and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABGINORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ABORTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found ABORTING?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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