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ADULTING

8 letters

Definition of ADULTING

noun

Activities typically associated with adulthood.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From adult + -ing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-ing

Same root, ADULT · 2 relatives in the game

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.

ADULTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 128
Its one board, across 128 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
126
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

saraiphim

on Day 126, 23 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Could you have found ADULTING?

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 126 - and most players walked straight past it.

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