The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
GLOVING
Definition of GLOVING
noun
A modern flow art and dance performed by moving fingers equipped with LED lights; often choreographed, done to create light trails, or performed within the electronic dance music (EDM) scene.
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Word DNA
GLOVING inherits its ancestry from its root, GLOVE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,585)
How it is built
Same root, GLOVE · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Icelandic, Scots.
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.
GLOVING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GLOVING starts with G and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GGILNOV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.
Words that start GLOVIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GLOVING?
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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