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BARBERING
Definition of BARBERING
noun
The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From barber + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BARBER · 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.
BARBERING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BARBERING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABBEGINRR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B and R appear more than once.
Words that start BARBER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BARBERING?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
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