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RELIEVING
Definition of RELIEVING
verb
present participle and gerund of relieve
RELIEVE
verb
To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From relieve + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, RELIEVE · 1 relative 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.
RELIEVING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 43 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RELIEVING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EEGIILNRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and I appear more than once.
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 RELIEV
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found RELIEVING?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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