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OXYWELDING

10 letters

Definition of OXYWELDING

verb

present participle and gerund of oxyweld

OXYWELD

verb

To weld using oxyfuel.

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Word DNA

OXYWELDING inherits its ancestry from its root, OXYWELD.

How it is built

verbcompoundoxy-

Same root, OXYWELD · 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.

OXYWELDING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 178
Its 2 boards, across 178 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
157
First board
174
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 157, 24 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 174, 10 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

dfpiii

on Day 157, 24 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

OXYWELDING
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

OXYWELDING starts with O and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DEGILNOWXY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start OXYWEL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found OXYWELDING?

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 157 - and most players walked straight past it.

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