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CHEAPENING

10 letters

Definition of CHEAPENING

verb

present participle and gerund of cheapen

CHEAPEN

verb

To decrease the value or price of; to make cheaper.

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Word DNA

CHEAPENING inherits its ancestry from its root, CHEAPEN.

How it is built

verbcompound-en

Same root, CHEAPEN · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

CHEAPENING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its 2 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
154
First board
159
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

hik

on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CHEAPENING
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CHEAPENING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACEEGHINNP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and N appear more than once.

Words that start CHEAPE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CHEAPENING?

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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.

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