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CULTURING

9 letters

Definition of CULTURING

verb

present participle and gerund of culture

CULTURE

noun

The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.

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Word DNA

CULTURING inherits its ancestry from its root, CULTURE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Middle French
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,223)

How it is built

verb

Same root, CULTURE · 7 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CULTURING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 9 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
77
First board
149
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 77, 5 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

twiggy07

on Day 77, 5 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

CULTURING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CULTURING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CGILNRTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.

Words that start CULTUR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CULTURING?

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 77 - and most players walked straight past it.

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