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FUGUING

7 letters

Definition of FUGUING

verb

present participle and gerund of fugue

FUGUE

noun

A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.

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Word DNA

FUGUING inherits its ancestry from its root, FUGU.

Line of descent

  1. Japanese
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Japanese

Deepest traced root

25th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.4%

of traced words share this origin (319)

Japonic

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, FUGU · 2 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.

FUGUING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its one board, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
29
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.

First ever to find it

penelope_mech

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FUGUING
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FUGUING starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read FGGINUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and G appear more than once.

Could you have found FUGUING?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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