The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PADDING
Definition of PADDING
verb
present participle and gerund of pad
PAD
symbol
ISO 639-3 language code for Paumarí.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PAD · 1 relative 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.
PADDING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
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
PADDING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ADDGINP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found PADDING?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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