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RECLUSING
Definition of RECLUSING
verb
present participle and gerund of recluse
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Word DNA
RECLUSING inherits its ancestry from its root, RECLUSE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,951)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RECLUSE · 5 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.
RECLUSING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 149, 16 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RECLUSING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CEGILNRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RECLUS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RECLUSING?
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 149 - and most players walked straight past it.
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