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CURTAILING
Definition of CURTAILING
verb
present participle and gerund of curtail
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Word DNA
CURTAILING inherits its ancestry from its root, CURTAIL.
Line of descent
- Old French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (834)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CURTAIL · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Latin.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CURTAILING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CURTAILING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGIILNRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CURTAI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found CURTAILING?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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