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ECHOING

7 letters

Definition of ECHOING

verb

present participle and gerund of echo

ECHO

noun

Alternative letter-case form of Echo of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

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Word DNA

ECHOING inherits its ancestry from its root, ECHO.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Ancient Greek
  3. Latin
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.3%

of traced words share this origin (11,343)

How it is built

verb

Same root, ECHO · 20 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

ECHOING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 160
Its 21 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
25
First board
159
Latest board
53
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

chaimae

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ECHOING
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

ECHOING starts with E and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CEGHINO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start ECHOIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ECHOING?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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