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SERVICING

9 letters

Definition of SERVICING

verb

present participle and gerund of service

SERVICE

noun

An act of being of assistance to someone.

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Word DNA

SERVICING inherits its ancestry from its root, SERVICE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Old French
  4. Old English
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,201)

How it is built

verb

Same root, SERVICE · 6 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.

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Rarity score
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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.

SERVICING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 157
Its 4 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
56
First board
143
Latest board
39
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 56, 15 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

thethinker

on Day 56, 15 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SERVICING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SERVICING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CEGIINRSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears 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 SERVIC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SERVICESERVICEDSERVICERSERVICESSERVICERSSERVICEMANSERVICEMENSERVICEABLESERVICEABLYSERVICELESSSERVICEBERRYSERVICEWOMAN

Could you have found SERVICING?

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 56 - and most players walked straight past it.

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