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HURTING
Definition of HURTING
verb
present participle and gerund of hurt
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Word DNA
HURTING inherits its ancestry from its root, HURT.
Line of descent
- Welsh
- Frankish
- Middle English
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
34th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (60)
branch · 0.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HURT · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Middle Low German, Old English, Old French, Old Norse, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HURTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 39, 28 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HURTING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GHINRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found HURTING?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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