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PEALING

/ˈpiːlɪŋ/7 letters

Definition of PEALING

verb

present participle and gerund of peal

PEAL

noun

A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.

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Word DNA

PEALING inherits its ancestry from its root, PEAL.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,288)

Romance

branch · 12.9% of traced words

How it is built

verb2 syllables

Same root, PEAL · 3 relatives in the game

Every Old French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

PEALING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 27 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
27
Boards found on
38
First board
158
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

nameisnone

on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PEALING
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PEALING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGILNP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

LEAPINGPLEAING

Words that start PEALIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PEALING?

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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.

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