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PALAVERING

10 letters

Definition of PALAVERING

noun

gerund of palaver: the act of one who palavers.

PALAVER

noun

A village council meeting.

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Another sense

PALAVERING carries a second meaning.

  1. verb

    Present participle of palaver.

Where it comes from

From palaver + -ing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-ing

Same root, PALAVER · 3 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

PALAVERING in a sentence

“In the palavering over the Greece bailout, an obstacle was the European Central Bank's insistence that nothing be done that might allow the ratings agencies to declare that Greece had defaulted on its debts—or at least not until the bank received taxpayer guarantees for its own holdings of Greek debt.”

Who Elected the Rating Agencies?, 2011

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

PALAVERING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 116 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 32 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
32
Boards found on
33
First board
138
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

robanybody

on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PALAVERING
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PALAVERING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AAEGILNPRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start PALAVE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PALAVERING?

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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.

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