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HOLDING
Definition of HOLDING
noun
Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hold + -ing. The sense "holding company" is from Russian холдинг (xolding), a pseudo-anglicism derived from an ellipsis of holding company.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Russian
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
20th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.5%
of traced words share this origin (142)
branch · 0.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HOLD · 3 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.
HOLDING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HOLDING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DGHILNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HOLDING?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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