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CAGING
Definition of CAGING
verb
present participle and gerund of cage
noun
An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.
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Word DNA
CAGING inherits its ancestry from its root, CAG.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
24th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (112)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CAG · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CAGING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CAGING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGGIN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.
Could you have found CAGING?
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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.
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