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LEASING
Definition of LEASING
noun
A lie; the act of lying, falsehood.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English lesing, leasung, from Old English lēasung (“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”), from Proto-West Germanic *lausungu, from Proto-Germanic *lausungō, equivalent to lease (“to lie”) + -ing. Cognate with Scots lesing (“lying, falsehood”), German Lösung (“breaking away, release, liberation, solution”), Icelandic lausung (“lying, falsehood”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,940)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Icelandic, Scots.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LEASING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 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 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LEASING starts with L and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGILNS - 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.
Words that start LEASIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found LEASING?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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