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BALUSTRADING

12 letters

Definition of BALUSTRADING

noun

work including one or more balustrades

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From balustrade + -ing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-ing

Same root, BALUSTRADE · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

BALUSTRADING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 129
Its one board, across 129 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
129
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 129, 26 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

elliomegSUPPORTER

on Day 129, 26 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BALUSTRADING
12
Letters
4
Vowels
8
Consonants
11
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BALUSTRADING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AABDGILNRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start BALUSTRA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BALUSTRADEBALUSTRADEDBALUSTRADES

Could you have found BALUSTRADING?

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 129 - and most players walked straight past it.

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