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BEARDING
Definition of BEARDING
noun
An undesirable video artifact whereby darker parts of a signal bleed across horizontally into the brighter parts.
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Word DNA
BEARDING inherits its ancestry from its root, BEARD.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.3%
of traced words share this origin (11,259)
How it is built
Same root, BEARD · 7 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Czech, Dutch, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Scots, Yiddish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BEARDING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 54, 13 July 2026.
Built from these letters
BEARDING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABDEGINR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BEARDI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 54
Could you have found BEARDING?
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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.
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