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PORTRAYING
Definition of PORTRAYING
verb
present participle and gerund of portray
PORTRAY
verb
To paint or draw the likeness of.
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Word DNA
PORTRAYING inherits its ancestry from its root, PORTRAY.
Line of descent
- Middle French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (904)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PORTRAY · 4 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.
PORTRAYING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PORTRAYING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGINOPRRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start PORTRA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PORTRAYING?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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