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CAUSING

/ˈkɔːzɪŋ/7 letters

Definition of CAUSING

verb

present participle and gerund of cause

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Rarity score
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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.

CAUSING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 3 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
17
First board
47
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 17, 6 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 47, 6 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 62 days.

First ever to find it

gnathan

on Day 17, 6 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CAUSING
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CAUSING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGINSU - 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.

Could you have found CAUSING?

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 17 - and most players walked straight past it.

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