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ESQUIRING
Definition of ESQUIRING
verb
present participle and gerund of esquire
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Word DNA
ESQUIRING inherits its ancestry from its root, ESQUIRE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,117)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ESQUIRE · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ESQUIRING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 38, 27 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ESQUIRING starts with E and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGIINQRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start ESQUIR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found ESQUIRING?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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