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JACKETING
Definition of JACKETING
verb
present participle and gerund of jacket
noun
Any of certain types of outerwear. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat . An outer garment (usually white) intended for chefs and which may be taken to signify status. A vest ; a waistcoat . A letter jacket.
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Word DNA
JACKETING inherits its ancestry from its root, JACKET.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,430)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, JACKET · 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.
JACKETING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
JACKETING starts with J and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACEGIJKNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start JACKET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found JACKETING?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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