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DRAYING
Definition of DRAYING
verb
present participle and gerund of dray
noun
Any of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
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Word DNA
DRAYING inherits its ancestry from its root, DRAY.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,847)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DRAY · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Middle Low German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DRAYING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 82, 10 August 2026.
Built from these letters
DRAYING starts with D and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ADGINRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found DRAYING?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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