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STARING

/ˈstɛəɹɪŋ/7 letters

Definition of STARING

verb

present participle and gerund of stare

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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.

STARING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 95
Its 6 boards, across 95 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
29
First board
92
Latest board
38
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.

Built from these letters

STARING
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

STARING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGINRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start STARIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

STARINGSSTARINGLY

Could you have found STARING?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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