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DEMURING

8 letters

Definition of DEMURING

verb

present participle and gerund of demure

DEMURE

adjective

Modest, quiet, reserved, or serious.

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Word DNA

DEMURING inherits its ancestry from its root, DEMUR.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Old French
  4. Anglo-Norman
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,843)

How it is built

verbcompound-orde-

Same root, DEMUR · 5 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · 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.

DEMURING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 169
Its 26 boards, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
26
Boards found on
32
First board
166
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

worriedpie

on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DEMURING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found DEMURING?

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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.

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