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SCHEDULING
Definition of SCHEDULING
verb
present participle and gerund of schedule
noun
A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur.
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Word DNA
SCHEDULING inherits its ancestry from its root, SCHEDULE.
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,281)
How it is built
Same root, SCHEDULE · 6 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCHEDULING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 174, 10 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCHEDULING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CDEGHILNSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SCHEDU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found SCHEDULING?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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