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AUTOMOBILING
Definition of AUTOMOBILING
verb
present participle and gerund of automobile
noun
A type of motor vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load.
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Word DNA
AUTOMOBILING inherits its ancestry from its root, AUTOMOBILE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Ancient Greek
- French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AUTOMOBILE · 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.
AUTOMOBILING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 86, 14 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 60 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 78, 6 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AUTOMOBILING starts with A and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABGIILMNOOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and I appear more than once.
Words that start AUTOMOBI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AUTOMOBILING?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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