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SOAKING
Definition of SOAKING
verb
present participle and gerund of soak
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (5,004)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SOAK · 5 relatives 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.
SOAKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SOAKING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGIKNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found SOAKING?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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