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BREATHING

/ˈbɹiːðɪŋ/9 letters

Definition of BREATHING

noun

verbal noun of breathe: The act of respiration; a single instance of this.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From breathe + -ing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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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.

BREATHING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 17 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
17
Boards found on
34
First board
100
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BREATHING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BREATH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BREATHING?

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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.

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