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RENEWING

8 letters

Definition of RENEWING

verb

present participle and gerund of renew

RENEW

verb

To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.

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Word DNA

RENEWING inherits its ancestry from its root, RENEW.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

4.2%

of traced words share this origin (1,192)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundre-

Same root, RENEW · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names German, Latin, Old Norse.

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Rarity score
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Tier
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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.

RENEWING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 139
Its one board, across 139 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

malrock

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

Built from these letters

RENEWING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RENEWING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EEGINNRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and N appear more than once.

Words that start RENEWI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RENEWINGS

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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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