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AWNING
Definition of AWNING
noun
A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn + -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans (“sloping roof”), from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)bannā (“eaves”) (compare Occitan ambans (“parapet”)), form of *ande- (intensive prefix) (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) + *bandā (“horn; peak”) (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,433)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AWN · 9 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Irish, Welsh.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AWNING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 154, 21 October 2026.
Built from these letters
AWNING starts with A and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGINNW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found AWNING?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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