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PACKING
Definition of PACKING
verb
present participle and gerund of pack
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pakkynge; equivalent to pack (“verb and noun senses”) + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PACKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PACKING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGIKNP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PACKIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PACKING?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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