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HEADING
Definition of HEADING
verb
present participle and gerund of head
noun
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
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Where it comes from
From head + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HEAD · 14 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.
HEADING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
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.
Also seen on Day 27
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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