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IMPORTING

9 letters

Definition of IMPORTING

verb

present participle and gerund of import

IMPORT

noun

Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.

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Word DNA

IMPORTING inherits its ancestry from its root, IMPORT.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33%

of traced words share this origin (9,457)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound

Same root, IMPORT · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

IMPORTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 141
Its 5 boards, across 141 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
92
First board
116
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 92, 20 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.

First ever to find it

witchgraphed

on Day 92, 20 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

IMPORTING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

IMPORTING starts with I and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GIIMNOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start IMPORT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found IMPORTING?

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 92 - and most players walked straight past it.

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