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DOUGHING
Definition of DOUGHING
verb
present participle and gerund of dough
noun
A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
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Word DNA
DOUGHING inherits its ancestry from its root, DOUGH.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,230)
How it is built
Same root, DOUGH · 9 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DOUGHING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 173, 9 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DOUGHING starts with D and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DGGHINOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.
Words that start DOUGHI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DOUGHING?
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 173 - and most players walked straight past it.
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