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BREADING

8 letters

Definition of BREADING

verb

present participle and gerund of bread

BREAD

noun

A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

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Word DNA

BREADING inherits its ancestry from its root, BREAD.

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

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,769)

How it is built

verb

Same root, BREAD · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Czech, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Irish, Latin, Norwegian, Old French and 9 more.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
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.

BREADING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 28 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
28
Boards found on
22
First board
166
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

chicky

on Day 22, 11 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

BREADING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABDEGINR - 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 BREADI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BREADING?

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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.

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