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RAVENING

/ˈɹævənɪŋ/8 letters

Definition of RAVENING

adjective

Voracious and greedy.

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Where it comes from

Present participle of the obsolete verb raven (“to prey”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjective3 syllables

Same root, RAVEN · 4 relatives in the game

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.

RAVENING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 142
Its one board, across 142 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
10
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

johnnephew

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RAVENING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RAVENING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGINNRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.

Words that start RAVENI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RAVENING?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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