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OOMPAHING

9 letters

Definition of OOMPAHING

verb

present participle and gerund of oompah

OOMPAH

noun

Alternative spelling of oom-pah.

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb

Same root, OOMPAH · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

OOMPAHING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its 6 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
49
First board
147
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 49, 8 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

clupshaw

on Day 49, 8 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

OOMPAHING
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

OOMPAHING starts with O and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGHIMNOOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start OOMPAH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found OOMPAHING?

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 49 - and most players walked straight past it.

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