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QUAVERING
Definition of QUAVERING
verb
present participle and gerund of quaver
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Other senses
QUAVERING carries 2 further meanings.
verb
Present participle of quaver.
adjective
(of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear
“spoke timidly in a tremulous voice”
Word DNA
QUAVERING inherits its ancestry from its root, QUAVER.
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,181)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUAVER · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names German.
QUAVERING in a sentence
“I told him my desires humbly, in quavering syllables.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUAVERING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 250 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUAVERING starts with Q and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGINQRUV - 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 mean much the same
Near-synonyms of QUAVERING. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start QUAVER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found QUAVERING?
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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