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CAREENING
Definition of CAREENING
verb
present participle and gerund of careen
verb
To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
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Word DNA
CAREENING inherits its ancestry from its root, CAREEN.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,817)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CAREEN · 3 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.
CAREENING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CAREENING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACEEGINNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and N appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start CAREEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CAREENING?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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