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DROWNDING

9 letters

Definition of DROWNDING

verb

present participle and gerund of drownd

DROWND

verb

To drown.

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb

Same root, DROWND · 1 relative in the game

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.

DROWNDING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 154
Its one board, across 154 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
22
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.

Built from these letters

DROWNDING
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DROWNDING starts with D and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DDGINNORW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and N appear more than once.

Words that start DROWND

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DROWNDDROWNDSDROWNDED

Could you have found DROWNDING?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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