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EXSERTING

9 letters

Definition of EXSERTING

verb

present participle and gerund of exsert

EXSERT

verb

To thrust out; to cause to protrude.

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Word DNA

EXSERTING inherits its ancestry from its root, EXSERT.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,951)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, EXSERT · 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.

EXSERTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 156
Its 6 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
67
First board
144
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

teg

on Day 67, 26 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EXSERTING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start EXSERT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

EXSERTEXSERTSEXSERTEDEXSERTILEEXSERTIONEXSERTIONS

Could you have found EXSERTING?

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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.

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