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OPENING
Definition of OPENING
verb
present participle and gerund of open
adjective
Physically unobstructed, uncovered, etc. Able to have something pass through or along it.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English openynge, openande, openand, from Old English openiende, from Proto-West Germanic *opanōndī, from Proto-Germanic *upanōndz, present participle of *upanōną (“to open”), equivalent to open + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian iepenjend, Dutch openend, German öffnend, Swedish öppnande, Icelandic opnandi.
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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 (3,952)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, OPEN · 8 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OPENING 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 38 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
OPENING starts with O and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGINNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start OPENIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OPENING?
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