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BEATING
Definition of BEATING
noun
The action by which someone or something is beaten.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, beat + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BEAT · 4 relatives 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.
BEATING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
BEATING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABEGINT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found BEATING?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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