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PEANING
Definition of PEANING
verb
present participle and gerund of pean
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Word DNA
PEANING inherits its ancestry from its root, PEAN.
Line of descent
- Middle French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (298)
branch · 15.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PEAN · 3 relatives 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.
PEANING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 132, 29 September 2026.
Built from these letters
PEANING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGINNP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found PEANING?
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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