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ROSING
Definition of ROSING
verb
present participle and gerund of rose
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Word DNA
ROSING inherits its ancestry from its root, ROSE.
Line of descent
- Sanskrit
- Proto-Indo-European
- Hebrew
- Arabic
- Aramaic
- Persian
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- Old French
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
11 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (246)
branch · 1.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ROSE · 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.
ROSING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROSING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GINORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found ROSING?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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