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COVERING
Definition of COVERING
verb
present participle and gerund of cover
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Present participle or participial adjective from cover (verb) + -ing; or, from Middle English coverynge, participle form of coveren, keveren (“to cover”).
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.
COVERING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COVERING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CEGINORV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found COVERING?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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