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ARRAYING

8 letters

Definition of ARRAYING

verb

present participle and gerund of array

ARRAY

noun

Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.

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Word DNA

ARRAYING inherits its ancestry from its root, ARRAY.

Line of descent

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

6 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,724)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, ARRAY · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old English.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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.

ARRAYING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its one board, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
152
First board
8
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

perihelion

on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ARRAYING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ARRAYING starts with A and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AAGINRRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and R appear more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found ARRAYING?

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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.

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