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BACTERIZING
Definition of BACTERIZING
verb
present participle and gerund of bacterize
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Word DNA
BACTERIZING inherits its ancestry from its root, BACTERIZE.
How it is built
Same root, BACTERIZE · 1 relative 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.
BACTERIZING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 177, 13 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 177, 13 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BACTERIZING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABCEGIINRTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start BACTERI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BACTERIZING?
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 177 - and most players walked straight past it.
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