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QUAILING
Definition of QUAILING
verb
present participle and gerund of quail
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Word DNA
QUAILING inherits its ancestry from its root, QUAIL.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,847)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUAIL · 4 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUAILING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
QUAILING starts with Q and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGIILNQU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found QUAILING?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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