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LEADINGS
Definition of LEADINGS
noun
plural of leading
LEAD · via leading
noun
A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
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Word DNA
LEADINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, LEAD.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.3%
of traced words share this origin (11,343)
How it is built
Same root, LEAD · 10 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish, Latin, Scots, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LEADINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 56, 15 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 47 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 56, 15 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LEADINGS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEGILNS - 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 56
Could you have found LEADINGS?
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 56 - and most players walked straight past it.
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