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BONING
Definition of BONING
verb
present participle and gerund of bone
noun
A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
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Word DNA
BONING inherits its ancestry from its root, BONE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,700)
How it is built
Same root, BONE · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Old Norse, Scots, Swedish.
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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.
BONING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
Built from these letters
BONING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read BGINNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start BONING
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BONING?
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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.
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