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QUACKING
Definition of QUACKING
verb
present participle and gerund of quack
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Word DNA
QUACKING inherits its ancestry from its root, QUACK.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (981)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUACK · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic, Middle Low German, Norwegian, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUACKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 98 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
QUACKING starts with Q and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGIKNQU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUACKI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found QUACKING?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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