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PILFERING
Definition of PILFERING
verb
present participle and gerund of pilfer
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Word DNA
PILFERING inherits its ancestry from its root, PILFER.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (834)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PILFER · 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.
PILFERING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 152 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PILFERING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EFGIILNPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I 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.
Words that start PILFER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found PILFERING?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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