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LOONINGS
Definition of LOONINGS
Wiktionary has no entry for LOONINGS itself. This is its base word, LOON.
noun
A crazy or deranged person; a lunatic.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for LOON.
From Middle English louen, lowen (“rascal; rogue”), probably of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin. Compare Dutch loen (“simpleton”). Or, related to etymology 2, due to the bird's loud cry. Folk etymology associates it slang-wise with lunatic, though the latter may have influenced it; see loony.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
29th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (79)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LOONINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LOONINGS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read GILNNOOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and N appear more than once, including a double letter.
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 LOONIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LOONINGS?
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