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BARRICADOING
Definition of BARRICADOING
verb
present participle and gerund of barricado
BARRICADO
noun
A barricade.
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Word DNA
BARRICADOING inherits its ancestry from its root, BARRICADO.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.5%
of traced words share this origin (438)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BARRICADO · 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.
BARRICADOING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 138, 5 October 2026.
Built from these letters
BARRICADOING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AABCDGIINORR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, R and I appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BARRICAD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BARRICADOING?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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