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CHAFFINGS

9 letters

Definition of CHAFFINGS

noun

plural of chaffing

CHAFFING

adjective

Pertaining to rubbing and abrasion.

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Word DNA

CHAFFINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, CHAFFING.

How it is built

nouncompound-ing

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

CHAFFINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 2 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
134
First board
145
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

jiggerypokery

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CHAFFINGS
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CHAFFINGS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACFFGHINS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start CHAFFI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CHAFFINGS?

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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