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PUTTINGS

8 letters

Definition of PUTTINGS

noun

plural of putting

PUT · via putting

symbol

ISO 639-3 language code for Putoh.

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Word DNA

PUTTINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, PUT.

Line of descent

  1. Sanskrit
  2. Proto-Indo-European
  3. Proto-Germanic
  4. Old English
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Sanskrit

Deepest traced root

15th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.9%

of traced words share this origin (777)

Indic

branch · 1.5% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, PUT · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.

Every Sanskrit word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

PUTTINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its 2 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
106
First board
138
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.

First ever to find it

eengineer

on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PUTTINGS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PUTTINGS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read GINPSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start PUTTIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PUTTINGS?

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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.

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