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BOWLING
Definition of BOWLING
verb
present participle and gerund of bowl
noun
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
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Word DNA
BOWLING inherits its ancestry from its root, BOWL.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,679)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BOWL · 7 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Middle Low German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOWLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 68 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BOWLING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read BGILNOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BOWLIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found BOWLING?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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