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REDACTING
Definition of REDACTING
verb
present participle and gerund of redact
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Word DNA
REDACTING inherits its ancestry from its root, REDACT.
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 (23,981)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, REDACT · 6 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.
REDACTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 78 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
REDACTING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACDEGINRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start REDACT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found REDACTING?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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