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RIVETING
Definition of RIVETING
verb
present participle and gerund of rivet
noun
A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.
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Word DNA
RIVETING inherits its ancestry from its root, RIVET.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RIVET · 5 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.
RIVETING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 96 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 9, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RIVETING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGIINRTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start RIVETI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found RIVETING?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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