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BETROTHING

10 letters

Definition of BETROTHING

verb

present participle and gerund of betroth

BETROTH

verb

Of a man: to promise to take (a woman) as a future spouse; to plight one's troth to.

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Word DNA

BETROTHING inherits its ancestry from its root, BETROTH.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

9%

of traced words share this origin (2,589)

How it is built

verbcompoundbe-bi-

Same root, BETROTH · 3 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

BETROTHING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 144
Its one board, across 144 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
137
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

ladylark

on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BETROTHING
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BETROT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BETROTHBETROTHSBETROTHALBETROTHEDBETROTHESBETROTHALSBETROTHEDSBETROTHMENT

Could you have found BETROTHING?

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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.

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