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RISKING
Definition of RISKING
verb
present participle and gerund of risk
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Word DNA
RISKING inherits its ancestry from its root, RISK.
Line of descent
- Italian
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.7%
of traced words share this origin (1,377)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RISK · 8 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Arabic, Latin, Old English, Persian, Portuguese, Proto-Indo-European, Sanskrit and 1 more.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RISKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
RISKING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GIIKNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RISKIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found RISKING?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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