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POSTILING
Definition of POSTILING
verb
present participle and gerund of postil
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Word DNA
POSTILING inherits its ancestry from its root, POSTIL.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,643)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, POSTIL · 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.
POSTILING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 80, 8 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 66 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 80, 8 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POSTILING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GIILNOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start POSTIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POSTILING?
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 80 - and most players walked straight past it.
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