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FAVOURITING
Definition of FAVOURITING
verb
present participle and gerund of favourite
adjective
Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.)
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Word DNA
FAVOURITING inherits its ancestry from its root, FAVOURITE.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,787)
How it is built
Same root, FAVOURITE · 5 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.
FAVOURITING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 163, 30 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 163, 30 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FAVOURITING starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AFGIINORTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start FAVOURI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FAVOURITING?
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 163 - and most players walked straight past it.
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