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BEVELING

8 letters

Definition of BEVELING

verb

present participle and gerund of bevel

BEVEL

noun

An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer.

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Other senses

BEVELING carries 3 further meanings.

  1. noun

    Same as bevel, 1.

  2. verb

    Present participle of bevel.

  3. noun

    Alternative spelling of bevelling.

Word DNA

BEVELING inherits its ancestry from its root, BEVEL.

Line of descent

  1. Italian
  2. Latin
  3. Old French
  4. Anglo-Norman
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Italian

Deepest traced root

10th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2%

of traced words share this origin (584)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, BEVEL · 5 relatives in the game

Every Italian word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

BEVELING in a sentence

“The style and amount of beveling, gradients, shadows and shading has changed with every release of Microsoft Office since 1.0 and this in part reflects the trends at the time.”

Do Outlook 2010′s Design Changes Make Sense? | Lifehacker Australia, 2010

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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.

BEVELING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 100 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 29 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
29
Boards found on
28
First board
142
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

perrynomasticTOP SUPPORTER

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start BEVELI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BEVELING?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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