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MATTERING
Definition of MATTERING
verb
present participle and gerund of matter
noun
Material; substance. Anything with mass and volume. Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
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Word DNA
MATTERING inherits its ancestry from its root, MATTER.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,613)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MATTERING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MATTERING starts with M and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGIMNRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MATTER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MATTERING?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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