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ANCHORING
Definition of ANCHORING
noun
The act or means by which something is anchored or made firm.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From anchor + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ANCHOR · 3 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.
ANCHORING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
Built from these letters
ANCHORING starts with A and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGHINNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start ANCHOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ANCHORING?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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