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GREETING

/ˈɡɹiːtɪŋ/8 letters

Definition of GREETING

noun

A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

By surface analysis, greet + -ing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

GREETING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 125
Its one board, across 125 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
124
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

countchocula

on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GREETING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GREETING starts with G and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EEGGINRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G and E appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start GREETI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GREETING?

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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.

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