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HARLING
Definition of HARLING
verb
present participle and gerund of harl
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Word DNA
HARLING inherits its ancestry from its root, HARL.
Line of descent
- Middle Low German
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
21st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (353)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HARL · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HARLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HARLING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGHILNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HARLING?
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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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