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SCATTING

8 letters

Definition of SCATTING

verb

present participle and gerund of scat

SCAT

noun

A tax; tribute.

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb

Same root, SCATT · 8 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

SCATTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its one board, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
21
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

creepish

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SCATTING
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SCATTING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGINSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start SCATTI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SCATTIERSCATTILYSCATTIESTSCATTINGSSCATTINESS

Could you have found SCATTING?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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