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BLOOMING

/ˈbluː.mɪŋ/8 letters

Definition of BLOOMING

verb

present participle and gerund of bloom

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Where it comes from

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

BLOOMING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 16 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
7
First board
97
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

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

BLOOMING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read BGILMNOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start BLOOMI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BLOOMING?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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