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ORDERING
Definition of ORDERING
verb
present participle and gerund of order
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Word DNA
ORDERING inherits its ancestry from its root, ORDER.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,866)
How it is built
Same root, ORDER · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Russian.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ORDERING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ORDERING starts with O and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DEGINORR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Could you have found ORDERING?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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