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CLING
Definition of CLING
noun
Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English clingen, from Old English clingan (“to adhere”), from Proto-West Germanic *klingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą. Cognate with Danish klynge (“to cluster, to crowd”). Compare clump.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 116, 13 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CLING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CGILN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CLING
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found CLING?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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