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OILING
Definition of OILING
noun
An application of oil.
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Word DNA
OILING inherits its ancestry from its root, OIL.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,337)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, OIL · 9 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English, Proto-Slavic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OILING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 84, 12 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 84, 12 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
OILING starts with O and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GIILNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Could you have found OILING?
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 84 - and most players walked straight past it.
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