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PROMISING

/ˈpɹɑmɪsɪŋ/9 letters

Definition of PROMISING

adjective

Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

PROMISING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 9 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
25
First board
102
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

hjones71

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

PROMISING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PROMISING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GIIMNOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start PROMIS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PROMISEPROMISEDPROMISEEPROMISERPROMISESPROMISORPROMISEESPROMISERSPROMISORSPROMISSORPROMISEFULPROMISSIVE

Could you have found PROMISING?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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