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FATHOMING
Definition of FATHOMING
verb
present participle and gerund of fathom
noun
A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.
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Word DNA
FATHOMING inherits its ancestry from its root, FATHOM.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,191)
How it is built
Same root, FATHOM · 7 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FATHOMING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 68 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FATHOMING starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AFGHIMNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FATHOM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 37
Could you have found FATHOMING?
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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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