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DEHORNING

9 letters

Definition of DEHORNING

verb

present participle and gerund of dehorn

DEHORN

verb

To remove the horns from.

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Word DNA

DEHORNING inherits its ancestry from its root, DEHORN.

How it is built

verbcompoundde-

Same root, DEHORN · 4 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

DEHORNING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

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Its one board, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
154
First board
19
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.

First ever to find it

seisic

on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

DEHORNING starts with D and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DEGHINNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.

Words that start DEHORN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DEHORNING?

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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.

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