The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
OUTBARKING
Definition of OUTBARKING
verb
present participle and gerund of outbark
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Word DNA
OUTBARKING inherits its ancestry from its root, OUTBARK.
How it is built
Same root, OUTBARK · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OUTBARKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 130, 27 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 130, 27 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OUTBARKING starts with O and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABGIKNORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start OUTBAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OUTBARKING?
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 130 - and most players walked straight past it.
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