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DEPERMING
Definition of DEPERMING
verb
present participle and gerund of deperm
DEPERM
verb
To degauss or demagnetize; especially, to degauss a ship by dragging a large powered electrical cable along its side.
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Word DNA
DEPERMING inherits its ancestry from its root, DEPERM.
How it is built
Same root, DEPERM · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DEPERMING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 86, 14 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 61 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 86, 14 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DEPERMING starts with D and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DEEGIMNPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
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 DEPERM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DEPERMING?
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 86 - and most players walked straight past it.
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