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HARROWING

/ˈhæɹəʊ.ɪŋ/9 letters

Definition of HARROWING

verb

present participle and gerund of harrow.

HARROW

noun

A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

By surface analysis, harrow + -ing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HARROWING 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

guidogirl

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

Built from these letters

HARROWING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HARROWING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGHINORRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start HARROW

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HARROWHARROWSHARROWEDHARROWERHARROWERSHARROWINGSHARROWMENTHARROWINGLYHARROWMENTS

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