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RACING
Definition of RACING
noun
The sport of competing in races.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, race + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, RACE · 11 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.
RACING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RACING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGINR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found RACING?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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