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BETIMING

8 letters

Definition of BETIMING

verb

present participle and gerund of betime

BETIME

verb

To occur; betide.

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Word DNA

BETIMING inherits its ancestry from its root, BETIME.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7.4%

of traced words share this origin (1,913)

Germanic

branch · 22.8% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundbe-

Same root, BETIME · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BETIMING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 130
Its 2 boards, across 130 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
130
Latest board
58
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 130, 27 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

jaythenerdkidSUPPORTER

on Day 130, 27 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BETIMING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BETIMING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read BEGIIMNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Could you have found BETIMING?

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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