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PURSUING

/pəˈsjuː.ɪŋ/8 letters

Definition of PURSUING

verb

present participle and gerund of pursue

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

PURSUING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 101
Its 3 boards, across 101 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
63
First board
85
Latest board
19
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 63, 22 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 85, 13 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

kelseybean

on Day 63, 22 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start PURSUI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PURSUITPURSUITSPURSUINGSPURSUINGLYPURSUIVANTPURSUIVANTS

Could you have found PURSUING?

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 63 - and most players walked straight past it.

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