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SOILING
Definition of SOILING
verb
present participle and gerund of soil
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Word DNA
SOILING inherits its ancestry from its root, SOIL.
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 (11,554)
How it is built
Same root, SOIL · 8 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, French, Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, Russian.
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.
SOILING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SOILING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GIILNOS - 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 SOILIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found SOILING?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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