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POESYING

8 letters

Definition of POESYING

verb

present participle and gerund of poesy

POESY

noun

A poem.

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Word DNA

POESYING inherits its ancestry from its root, POESY.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Latin
  3. Middle French
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.2%

of traced words share this origin (9,501)

Hellenic

branch · 12.2% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-esy

Same root, POESY · 3 relatives in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

POESYING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 157
Its one board, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
149
First board
8
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

traceyk

on Day 149, 16 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

POESYING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found POESYING?

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 149 - and most players walked straight past it.

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