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BELACING

8 letters

Definition of BELACING

verb

present participle and gerund of belace

BELACE

verb

To fasten, as with a lace or cord.

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Word DNA

BELACING inherits its ancestry from its root, BELACE.

How it is built

verbcompoundbe-

Same root, BELACE · 3 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

BELACING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 150
Its 3 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
72
First board
148
Latest board
66
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

krisPATRON

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BELACING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found BELACING?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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