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DEALINGS

/ˈdiːlɪŋ(ɡ)z/8 letters

Definition of DEALINGS

noun

Relations with others.

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Word DNA

DEALINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, DEALING.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

4.2%

of traced words share this origin (1,217)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound-ing

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

DEALINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 16 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
8
First board
145
Latest board
52
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

DEALINGS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DEALINGS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEGILNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start DEALIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DEALINGS?

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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.

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