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BEATINGS

/ˈbiːtɪŋz/8 letters

Definition of BEATINGS

noun

plural of beating

BEATING

noun

The action by which someone or something is beaten.

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Word DNA

BEATINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, BEATING.

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound-ing

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

BEATINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its 4 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
80
First board
144
Latest board
39
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 80, 8 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First ever to find it

gordok

on Day 119, 16 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BEATINGS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BEATINGS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEGINST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BEATIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BEATINGS?

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 80 - and most players walked straight past it.

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