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COMPELLING
Definition of COMPELLING
verb
present participle and gerund of compel
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, compel + -ing.
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.
COMPELLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 117, 14 September 2026.
Built from these letters
COMPELLING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CEGILLMNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COMPEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COMPELLING?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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