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CONTOURING
Definition of CONTOURING
verb
present participle and gerund of contour
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Word DNA
CONTOURING inherits its ancestry from its root, CONTOUR.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,395)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CONTOUR · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONTOURING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONTOURING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CGINNOORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and N appear more than once.
Words that start CONTOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONTOURING?
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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.
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