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DARLINGNESS
About DARLINGNESS
DARLINGNESS is a valid 11-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DARLINGNESS in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 139 days.
Built from these letters
DARLINGNESS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEGILNNRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and S appear more than once, including a double letter.
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 DARLING
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found DARLINGNESS?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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