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DISPELLING

10 letters

Definition of DISPELLING

verb

present participle and gerund of dispel

DISPEL

verb

To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.

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Word DNA

DISPELLING inherits its ancestry from its root, DISPEL.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,318)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, DISPEL · 4 relatives in the game

Every Latin 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.

DISPELLING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its one board, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
161
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

cataphony

on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DISPELLING
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start DISPEL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DISPELLING?

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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.

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