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REPROACHING

11 letters

Definition of REPROACHING

verb

present participle and gerund of reproach

REPROACH

noun

A mild rebuke, or an implied criticism.

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Word DNA

REPROACHING inherits its ancestry from its root, REPROACH.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,437)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, REPROACH · 3 relatives in the game

Every Old French word → · 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.

REPROACHING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 170
Its one board, across 170 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
154
First board
16
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

jjeesssss

on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

REPROACHING
11
Letters
4
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

REPROACHING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACEGHINOPRR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears 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 REPROAC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

REPROACHREPROACHEDREPROACHERREPROACHESREPROACHERSREPROACHFULREPROACHABLEREPROACHFULLYREPROACHINGLYREPROACHFULNESS

Could you have found REPROACHING?

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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.

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