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DISAPPEARING

12 letters

Definition of DISAPPEARING

verb

present participle and gerund of disappear

DISAPPEAR

verb

To vanish.

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Word DNA

DISAPPEARING inherits its ancestry from its root, DISAPPEAR.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,109)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompounddis-

Same root, DISAPPEAR · 1 relative in the game

DISAPPEAR

Its etymology also names Old English.

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

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

DISAPPEARING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its 2 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
151
First board
152
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

es_kay

on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DISAPPEARING
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DISAPPEARING starts with D and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AADEGIINPPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I, A and P appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start DISAPPEA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DISAPPEARDISAPPEARSDISAPPEAREDDISAPPEARANCEDISAPPEARANCES

Could you have found DISAPPEARING?

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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.

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