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SAILBOARDING

12 letters

Definition of SAILBOARDING

noun

The sport of recreational activity of using a sailboard. windsurfing.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From sailboard + -ing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-ing

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.

SAILBOARDING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its 3 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
88
First board
138
Latest board
34
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 88, 16 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First ever to find it

chmodxheart

on Day 88, 16 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SAILBOARDING
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SAILBOARDING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AABDGIILNORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and I appear 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 SAILBOAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SAILBOARDSAILBOARDSSAILBOARDEDSAILBOARDERSAILBOARDINGS

Could you have found SAILBOARDING?

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 88 - and most players walked straight past it.

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