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PAPERINGS

9 letters

Definition of PAPERINGS

noun

plural of papering

PAPER · via papering

noun

A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

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.

PAPERINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its 3 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
151
First board
159
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

donothelpme

on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PAPERINGS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PAPERINGS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGINPPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once.

Words that start PAPERI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PAPERIERPAPERINGPAPERISHPAPERIESTPAPERINESSPAPERINESSES

Could you have found PAPERINGS?

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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.

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