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CARING
Definition of CARING
adjective
Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From care + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CARE · 7 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.
CARING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CARING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGINR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found CARING?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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