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HARLOTING
Definition of HARLOTING
verb
present participle and gerund of harlot
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Word DNA
HARLOTING inherits its ancestry from its root, HARLOT.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,816)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HARLOT · 4 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.
HARLOTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 168, 4 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 168, 4 November 2026.
Built from these letters
HARLOTING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGHILNORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start HARLOT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HARLOTING?
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 168 - and most players walked straight past it.
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