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CLARETING
Definition of CLARETING
verb
present participle and gerund of claret
noun
A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.
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Word DNA
CLARETING inherits its ancestry from its root, CLARET.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CLARET · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Spanish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CLARETING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CLARETING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACEGILNRT - 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.
Words that start CLARET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CLARETING?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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