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HEADING

/ˈhɛdɪŋ/7 letters

Definition of HEADING

verb

present participle and gerund of head

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Where it comes from

From head + -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.

HEADING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 101
Its 3 boards, across 101 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
27
First board
100
Latest board
55
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

newyorkbadger

on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HEADING
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HEADING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ADEGHIN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start HEADIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HEADINGSHEADINESSHEADINESSES

Could you have found HEADING?

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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.

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