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EXEMPLIFYING

12 letters

Definition of EXEMPLIFYING

verb

present participle and gerund of exemplify

EXEMPLIFY

verb

To show or illustrate by example.

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Word DNA

EXEMPLIFYING inherits its ancestry from its root, EXEMPLIFY.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,914)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, EXEMPLIFY · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · 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.

EXEMPLIFYING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 155
Its 2 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
85
First board
102
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 85, 13 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 53 days.

First ever to find it

inkandscribblesPATRON

on Day 85, 13 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EXEMPLIFYING
12
Letters
4
Vowels
8
Consonants
10
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

EXEMPLIFYING starts with E and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EEFGIILMNPXY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and I appear more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start EXEMPLIF

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

EXEMPLIFYEXEMPLIFIEDEXEMPLIFIEREXEMPLIFIESEXEMPLIFICATION

Could you have found EXEMPLIFYING?

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 85 - and most players walked straight past it.

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