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PROOFING

/ˈpɹuːfɪŋ/8 letters

Definition of PROOFING

noun

A step in creating yeast breads and baked goods, during which the yeast is allowed to leaven the dough.

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PROOFING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 120
Its 13 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
22
First board
109
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.

Built from these letters

PROOFING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PROOFING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read FGINOOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start PROOFI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PROOFING?

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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.

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