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PIRATING
Definition of PIRATING
verb
present participle and gerund of pirate
noun
A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
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Word DNA
PIRATING inherits its ancestry from its root, PIRATE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,569)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PIRATE · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PIRATING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 62 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PIRATING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGIINPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start PIRATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found PIRATING?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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