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DROVINGS
Definition of DROVINGS
Wiktionary has no entry for DROVINGS itself. This is its base word, DROVE.
noun
A cattle drive, or a drive of another livestock animal (e.g. sheep). The herd being driven in a cattle (or other animal) drive; thus, a number of animals driven to market or new pastures; a group of livestock animals more generally.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for DROVE.
From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draibō (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DROVINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DROVINGS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DGINORSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found DROVINGS?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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