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ENVYING
Definition of ENVYING
verb
present participle and gerund of envy
noun
Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
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Word DNA
ENVYING inherits its ancestry from its root, ENVY.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,643)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ENVY · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English, Proto-Slavic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ENVYING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ENVYING starts with E and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGINNVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Could you have found ENVYING?
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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