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POSTMARKING
Definition of POSTMARKING
verb
present participle and gerund of postmark
noun
A marking made by a postal service on a delivery, usually indicating the place where and the date and time when the item was received or processed for the first time, mostly serving to cancel a postage stamp.
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Word DNA
POSTMARKING inherits its ancestry from its root, POSTMARK.
How it is built
Same root, POSTMARK · 2 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.
POSTMARKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POSTMARKING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGIKMNOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start POSTMAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found POSTMARKING?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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