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FRAILING

8 letters

Definition of FRAILING

verb

present participle and gerund of frail

FRAIL

adjective

Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.

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Word DNA

FRAILING inherits its ancestry from its root, FRAIL.

Line of descent

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

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (25,330)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, FRAIL · 7 relatives in the game

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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.

FRAILING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 167
Its 2 boards, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
150
First board
151
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 150, 17 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

karenrPATRON

on Day 150, 17 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FRAILING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FRAILING starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AFGIILNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

FAIRLING

Words that start FRAILI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FRAILING?

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 150 - and most players walked straight past it.

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