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BESING
Definition of BESING
verb
To sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English besingen, from Old English besingan (“to sing of, bewail, sing charms, enchant”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisingwan (“to sing about”), equivalent to be- (“of, about”) + sing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besjunge (“to sing about”), West Frisian besjonge (“to sing about, praise”), Dutch bezingen (“to sing of, chant”), German besingen (“to sing of, sing the praises of”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål besynge (“to sing of”), Swedish besjunga (“to sing of”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BESING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 88, 16 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BESING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read BEGINS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BESING
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BESING?
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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