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HAVING
Definition of HAVING
verb
present participle and gerund of have
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Word DNA
HAVING inherits its ancestry from its root, HAVE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,251)
How it is built
Same root, HAVE · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, French, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Polish and 5 more.
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.
HAVING in OUTLIER
It has fitted 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 127, 24 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 46, 5 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HAVING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGHINV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HAVING?
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 127 - and most players walked straight past it.
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