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POSTFORMING
Definition of POSTFORMING
verb
present participle and gerund of postform
POSTFORM
verb
To shape or mold as a final stage of construction.
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Word DNA
POSTFORMING inherits its ancestry from its root, POSTFORM.
How it is built
Same root, POSTFORM · 1 relative 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.
POSTFORMING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POSTFORMING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read FGIMNOOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start POSTFOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POSTFORMING?
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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.
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