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BANDYING

8 letters

Definition of BANDYING

noun

gerund of bandy (“the act of one who bandies”)

BANDY

verb

To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From bandy + -ing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-ing

Same root, BANDY · 6 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

BANDYING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its one board, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
159
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

aliena

on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BANDYING
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BANDYI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BANDYING?

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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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