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BLEATING

/ˈbliːtɪŋ/8 letters

Definition of BLEATING

verb

present participle and gerund of bleat

BLEAT

noun

The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.

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Word DNA

BLEATING inherits its ancestry from its root, BLEAT.

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

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,223)

How it is built

verb2 syllables

Same root, BLEAT · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Scots.

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Rarity score
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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.

BLEATING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 51 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 33 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
33
Boards found on
24
First board
148
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BLEATI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BLEATING?

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