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DADDING

7 letters

Definition of DADDING

verb

present participle and gerund of dad

DAD

symbol

ISO 639-3 language code for Marik.

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Word DNA

DADDING inherits its ancestry from its root, DAD.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,019)

Germanic

branch · 22.8% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, DAD · 1 relative in the game

DAD

Every Middle English 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.

DADDING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 135
Its one board, across 135 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
134
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

yap

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DADDING
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DADDING starts with D and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ADDDGIN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found DADDING?

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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.

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