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BACKHOEING
Definition of BACKHOEING
verb
present participle and gerund of backhoe
noun
A piece of excavating equipment, either an integral subassembly or an attachment, consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth; used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.
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Word DNA
BACKHOEING inherits its ancestry from its root, BACKHOE.
How it is built
Same root, BACKHOE · 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.
BACKHOEING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 133, 30 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 133, 30 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BACKHOEING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABCEGHIKNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BACKHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BACKHOEING?
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 133 - and most players walked straight past it.
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